Senior Special Assistant to the Delta state Deputy Governor on Communication and Press, Mr. Bulou Kosin has reacted to allegations that the state Deputy Governor Barr. Kingsley Otuaro was meddling in the traditional affairs of the Ogbe-Ijoh people in Warri South West Council area of the state in respect to the alleged selection/appointment of their traditional ruler.
Kosin, in a statement on Saturday said that it was not true that the Deputy Governor was party to the alleged selection/appointment of Chief Couple Oromoni, or anybody for that matter, as Pere (King) of Ogbe-Ijoh-Warri Kingdom, against a subsisting court order as claimed in recent media reports.
"As leaders believed to be respectable, Chief Alfred Yola and Sele Banni and their sponsors, ought to have done the responsible thing by initiating contempt proceedings in court against whoever may have defied such court order, instead of resorting to unsubstantiated allegations, sentiments and blackmail, the statement said.
According to the statement, the leaders of Perebiri Quarters in Ogbe-Ijoh said the Deputy Governor allegedly “sent over 200 of his (Otuaro’s) policemen and aides to Ogbe-Ijoh Warri Kingdom...against the court directive to Ogbe-Ijoh for selection/appointment of Chief Couple Oromoni as monarch.
But reacting, Kosin said; "One wonders where the leaders of Perebiri quarters in Ogbe-Ijoh got their ridiculously staggering number of over 200 security details and aides to the Deputy Governor which they claimed he sent to the alleged Ogbe-Ijoh event.
"To begin with, the Deputy Governor does not have such weird number of details and aides and the entire story is indeed the figment of imagination of mischief makers bent on tarnishing the good reputation of the Deputy Governor.
"Informed leaders everywhere know that people who want to celebrate one occasion or the other do not need a Deputy Governor before seeking and getting police protection.
He however said that despite the diatribe, the Deputy Governor, wishes to appeal to the generally good people of Ogbe-Ijoh-Warri Kingdom to embrace peace necessary for the enjoyment of democratic dividends under Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s SMART agenda of prosperity for all Deltans.
"The Deputy Governor, Barr. Otuaro, hereby encourages journalists to remain partners in progress by seeking/exercising decorum and especially balance in their reportage. Reporters of The Nation and Vanguard newspapers who anchored the story could have done better by reaching the office of the Deputy Governor which is always open to inquiries", the statement added.
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