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A Bloody Crisis Brews In The Isoko Community As Uduaghan’s Aide, Consulate, Arch-Bishop, Intimidate Non-Members Of PDP With The Army, And Police

A bloody crisis is currently brewing at Ikpide-Irri community, in the Isoko South local government area of Delta state. The crisis comes following the alleged intimidation of the All Peoples Congress, APC members, with the army and police, by the Chief Security Adviser, to Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, Mr. John Kpokpogri. The Arch-Bishop COA Apena, a card-carrying member of the PDP, and oneself acclaimed Consulate who claimed to have been appointed by President Goodluck Jonathan.

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The crisis is said to be connected to the Tuesday ‘ostracizing’ of Prince Gabriel Othuke, a leader of the Ikpide-Irri Youth Movement, and a card-carrying member of the APC from the Ikpide-Irri community. The intimidation and thus, crisis, is said to be led by the Uduaghan’s Chief Security Adviser, the Arch-Bishop C.A.O. Apena, and other PDP cabals from the community.

SaharaReporters has learned that Okpokpogri, Omojefe, Apena, and others, took action following an article Othuke was said to have published on the failure of the Deputy Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Mr. Leo Ogor Okuweh. They colectively ostracized Prince Gabriel from the community. That article criticized Leo Ogor Okuweh  in his perceived failure to fulfill his promises made to the community during elections, and also his refusal to give, among other things, his stewardship to hold constituency briefings in the last twelve years in the green chambers.

The meeting to ostracize the APC member was held by members of the PDP cabal at the church premises of Arch-Bishop Apena, and was presided over by the Arch-Bishop who is fondly referred to as “a Political Arch-Bishop,” at Irri, with full trucks of Army and police flooding the area.

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The intimidation of opposition party members and ostracizing of Prince Gabriel, which is allegedly sponsored by the Uduaghan’s Chief Security Adviser, Arch-Bishop COA Apena, the self acclaimed Consulate, and other PDP members, is said to be targeted at all perceived non-members of PDP in the community.

Sources who spoke with a SaharaReportes correspondent gathered that Kpokpogri and his cohorts had by passed the legally constituted leadership of the community, to ostracize the APC member, despite the handling of the issue of the said publication by the community leadership under Comrade Thomas Oduozor.

Uduaghan’s Chief Security Officer, and the self acclaimed Consulate, who was said to have ‘boasted’ to the hearing of some persons that they have the full backing of the governor, and president Goodluck Jonathan, himself, to do and undo “any members of the community who may challenge their decisions in the community,” to make it a full fledged PDP community, as well as going against them during the general elections.

A SaharaReporters correspondent learned further that the fake Consulate, an oil bunkerer who moves about with trucks of security, had allegedly vowed to use his money and presidential connections, to chase from the community every non-members of the PDP. This vow includes, as well, a ‘flooding’ of the community with trucks of Army, and stern looking policemen personnel during the 2015 general elections. This vow, he said, has been given the tacit nod of President Goodluck Jonathan, and Governor Uduaghan.

“Okpokpogri and his PDP cabal vowed to use their money, and connections to chase everybody away from the community, once you are not a member of PDP. The annoying thing is, that they will be saying they have the full backing of the state governor, and the President. Kpokpogri does not have shame. When Okpokpogri and nine others were dismissed from the Nigerian Navy, by the Navy Board, following their involvement in illegal oil bunkering in the Niger Delta region, the community he wants to destroy, stood by him both in prayers and others,” a source told SaharaReporters.

“Because he has ventured into politics, everybody must belong to PDP, the political Arch-Bishop Apena who is a well known card carrying member of PDP is also joining hands with Kpokpogri to kill us and this was how he caused problem for the people of Irri when he alleged killed some security men sent to Irri by the late Bishop Benson Idahosa during the leadership tussle between him and Bishop Idahosa over the ownership of the Church of God Mission. Several thousand of souls were killed in Irri during that bloody war that Arch-Bishop Apena caused for the Irri people and now he want to cause that same kind of war at Ikpide-Irri,” an Indigene of Irri said in speaking with a SaharaReporters correspondent.

According to another member of the community based in Lagos, “These PDP cabals in the community who are terrorizing the non-members of PDP, include the Arch-Bishop Apena, Mr. Pius Otolo, one Mr. Michael, a well known beggar, and worn out politicians, like John Kpokpogri, among others. There is one of them based in Lagos, who was introduced into illegal oil bunkering by Kpokpogri, who is still into the business, as of this date, and using the money to intimidate the innocent people of Ikpide-Irri. I, therefore, call on Governor Uduaghan to, as a matter of urgent importance, to call to order his Chief Security Adviser, to stop using his office to intimidate, and cause problems for the Ikpide-Irri people, and the government should investigate their sources of income.”

Reacting to the development, one of the chairmen from one the branches who spoke with a SaharaReporters correspondent on the condition of anonymity, condemned in its entirety, the ostracizing of the APC member by Uduaghan’s Chief Security Adviser, Arch-Bishop Apena. There are other cabals of the PDP engaging in the same practices, describing it as “unconstitutional and illegal,” since it was carried out by PDP members,  and not the leadership of the community.

“As I talk to you, we have reliably gathered that the cabals have concluded plans to import dangerous weapons into the community, ahead of the 2015 general elections, and anyone who challenges them during the elections, shall be maimed and / or killed, because they already have the backing of the government. They should be called to order before it’s too late,” the branch chairman said.

"No one can make Ikpide-Irri a war zone, a PDP community, 100 percent level playing ground should be given to all political parties in the town,” the branch chairman went on to say. He added that, “it’s very unfortunate that these PDP cabals, after holding their meetings on how to cause mayhem in the community they will report back to, (are) serving a federal lawmaker in the area for gratifications.”

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