By Kemi Kasumu
Trouble is not ending soon for Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, as Digital and Social Media Aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, Lauretta Onochie, replied to his published threat of legal action.
It will be recalled an online newspaper (not The DEFENDER) recently published Nwaoboshi’s threat to sue Onochie for relaying on her Facebook wall what he called himself at an Anioma community meeting.
Nwaoboshi reportedly said loosely in Anioma language that “I’m a thief” and Lauretta Onochie as an Ada Anioma did not feel confortable with that.
She took to her Facebook wall to correct the negative impression, saying Anioma people don’t take what belongs to others.
She then slammed Senator Nwaoboshi for proudly presenting himself, an Anioma son and Senator, as a ‘thief’, adding it was little wonder he needed to give answers to some of the questions bothering on financial allegations against him with regard to Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
The Director of Public Affairs of NDDC, David Odili, earlier before then had issued a statement denying Nwaoboshi’s fraud allegations against Minister of the Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio.
The Delta Senator had claimed that Akpabio was awarded contracts by NDDC during his days as Senate Minority Leader. But the NDDC’s spokesman said not only there was no contract awarded to the Minister but also there was no evidence on record that such happened in the past.
He said, however, that evidence abounds of how Senator Nwaoboshi, who is Chairman Senate Committee on Niger Delta, used 11 companies as fronts to collect contracts and supplies which were not executed and that where supplies were made to his personal warehouse, he resold to Delta State government.
These were questions Onochie demanded the Senator must answer and instead for him to give expected answers, he not only wrote her a letter threatening to sue her if she did not retract the Facebook post and apologise to him in 48 hours but, he also wrote the NDDC spokesman with the same threat for issuing the clarification statement he issued, clearing his allegations of fraud against Akpabio.
But Lauretta Onochie, an Amazon never to be cowed by any threat after allowing his 48 hours ultimatum for her and the NDDC spokesman to apologise, got back to the same social media platform Saturday evening and hit the Senator in a post she titled, “I have a right of oversight functions over Peter Nwaoboshi not an apology!”
Read details of Lauretta Onochie’s fresh post below:
I HAVE A RIGHT OF OVERSIGHT FUNCTIONS OVER PETER NWAOBOSHI NOT AN APOLOGY!
? When I heard he was DRAGGING me to court, I laughed so loudly, I could have roused a sleeping koala. Hurry, Thief Nwaoboshi, I’m eager and willing to be sued so you don’t need to drag me.
? When the news filtered in that you are “dragging” me to court, the calls and messages of support began to pour in. Nationwide and particularly from those you have raped over the years, our long suffering Anioma people. Just a sample:
? Dear Sister,
Howdy. Just read Nwaoboshi wants to sue you for Libel. Congratulations.
Nwaoboshi has NO REPUTATION that will succeed in a Libel Suit. Ask him to hurry up. We know him very well!
My kindest personal regards.
? You shamefully demanded for an undeserved apology.
? You have kidnapped our region, pocketing for yourself, the development that should have set our people free from poverty.
I should apologise for that?
? You hijack the support for Anioma people at federal, State and local government levels. Yet, our women are dying from child birth because our collective wealth is in your pocket and you do not care.
I should apologise for that.
? Our youth have been left behind because you collect the basin of corn that should emancipate them. And like hungry chicks, you throw a few grains in their directions. And they hail you. Yet, left in poverty.
I should apologise for that?
? Peter Nwaoboshi has no regards for our women. It’s on record how you mobilised some enslaved youth as backup, as you slapped and beat up Mrs. Mariam Ali, Col. Ahmadu Ali’s wife, tearing the clothes she wore to a meeting.
I should apologise for that?
? It’s the same Nwaoboshi who got contracts to supply farm tractors to a Delta state government agency, DLA. What did he supply to DLA? Old tractors he repainted AND WAS PAID IN FULL.
I should apologise for that?
? You came to the Villa, State House Abuja, and you refused to follow protocol followed by everyone in your team. Then you threw an almighty tantrum when the rules were not bent for you. But you learnt that Abuja is not Asaba.
I should apologise for that?
? How about the trips to China with some Local government chairmen from Delta State? You know why you went there and at our expense….
I should apologise for that?
? Peter Nwaoboshi, you admitted in front of your kith and kin that you are a thief. The role you have played in Delta state has ensured that our region is littered with dilapidated infrastructures. Mostly, paid for by NDDC. Projects Later abandoned.
I should apologise for that?
? You have stolen the future of many of our young people who are now, thankfully, beginning to see through you for the fraud you are. Before now, their aspiration was to be in your good books so they can put food on the table.
Should I apologise for that?
? It’s on record that when Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa was our Senator, Anioma was safer. Peter Nwaoboshi, do you by chance, know why IPOB has their headquarters in Ibusa, your home town and are you not aware of how they have been harassing the Police and killing our people in Anioma communities in Enuani, Ika, Odiani and Ukwuani, a crime, hitherto, ascribed to “Fulani herdsmen”?
Should I apologise for that?
? Please Peter Nwaoboshi, is it true that you have been threatening to teach Pres. Buhari a lesson by mobilising Niger Delta militants against national oil installations?
When you truthfully respond to this, I will also ask if I should apologise for that too?
? How many bills have you sponsored at the Senate for the benefit of Nigerians in general and Anioma people in particular? I remember. You sponsored the Code Of Conduct Bureau bill, a pro-corruption bill, aimed at undermining the war on corruption that President Buhari is leading Nigerians to wage.
I should apologise for that?
? According to my brother and friend, Michael Williams, “When someone has a destiny to be disgraced, he works towards it to make it happen. Let’s wait for Nwaoboshi to fulfil his destiny.”
? I am Ada Anioma. You can’t intimidate me into silence. I will help you on your way to political extinction and an end to your criminal empire.
? You see this NDDC matter? That’s your Waterloo! Pack a bag, it’s over for you!
? Finally, I apologise that you are from Anioma, the same ethnic group that produced me.
? Ony’oshi nmo.
Lauretta Onochie. (Ada Anioma)
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