DELTA APC CONGRESSES' VIOLENCE: REPS MEMBER, ERHIATAKE HAS NO MORAL JUSTIFICATION TO PLAY VICTIM
-By Zik Gbemre
"What goes around comes around". Is it not how the saying goes?
James Ibori introduced politics of violence and thuggery in Delta state. Politics of winning by all means necessary.
Today his daughter and Reps member, Erhiatake, is playing the victim as target of electoral violence.
Does she deserve any pity? Doesn't she know violent elections gained prominence during his father's entrance into Delta politics?
There was peace in elections in Delta until Ibori was controversially elected in 1999 against majority preferred opponent, Moses Kragha.
Kragha went into quiet life with his family thereafter, for self preservation following repeated threats to life.
Then Governor James Ibori crowned self 'Odidigboigbo' of Africa when he was reigning. Deploying the force of "winning by any means necessary", he imposed elder cousin, Dr Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan as successor governor against the wish of Deltans.
Ibori thought he was all powerful and could do anything to humiliate Urhobo, with impunity. So where is the moral justification for his daughter, Erhiatake Ibori-Suenu, to complain of being target of violence at the APC ward and LG congresses held in Oghara?
These are mere congresses to pick wards and LG EXCOs within same APC they claim they have all left PDP to join. One wonders what will happen during primaries to pick flagbearers and then the 2027 general elections.
Ibori sowed the seed of political thuggery and violence in Delta. He harvested the gains at that time, now it is his turn to harvest the pains.
Ibori has become the proverbial man who throws stone at the market place not knowing who the stone will hit, because the stone could hit his mother.
The stones Ibori threw into 'Delta politics market' have hit Erhiatake, his beloved daughter, even as we are happy for her for being lucky to escape unhurt while her supported were maimed.
Please, Erhiatake, do well to ask your father, Thief James Ibori, if there were no violence to his favour when he grabbed governorship and when he imposed Uduaghan on Deltans as successor in 2007 against the wish of the majority of Deltans.
Erhiatake Ibori-Suenu said, "I have directed that all medical expenses of the affected victims be fully covered, and I assure them of our unwavering support and solidarity during this difficult time. We stand with them not only in words, but in action. Violence has no place in our politics. Justice must prevail."
"Violence has no place in our politics", since when I ask her. Reps Ibori-Suenu pretends not to know his father introduced political violence and thuggery since 1999 in Delta state.
Erhiatake Ibori-Suenu should blame his father who thought he would forever be Lord over Delta politics. His boys have grown and become more relevant, more adept in playing the 'win at all cost politics' of Delta than Ibori.
There was sustainable peace in politics of Delta when Felix Ibru was elected governor in 1992. Ibori came in and violence, thuggery and imposition of candidates on the people of Delta became the order of the day, merit became the exception.
It's in sustaining the 'win at all cost politics' that Ibori so much groomed community tyrants all over the space, the Ayiris, Ejeles, Tompolos and the rest into the stupendously wealthy village champions they are today at the expense of the people.
Today, these violent mongers have become Lords even over Ibori who is now at their becks and call, ever ready to tie wrapper and wear hats to run to their homes to grace their birthdays, wives and children's birthdays and related social events. 'Iphovwen'!
To Erhiatake, you've not seen anything yet. This is just "introduction". Just wards and LG congresses of APC and you're playing the victim of violence.
"Akpowene".
Zik Gbemre
February 23, 2026
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