Sonala olumhense biography of alberta

He may have once been married to an Esan woman, but he demonstrates no grasp of the Esan language let alone its etymology. And I say that as one who has sat with quite a few governors, including another Esan governor, the late Professor Ambrose Alli, about whom I have proudly testified. Of course, Prof. Alli was incomparable. Nobody is asking Okpebholo to transform into a professor simply because of their common Esan heritage.

But Esan teenagers, including the PDP governorship candidate, Asue Ighodalo, whom I knew when he was a teenager in secondary school in Ibadan, routinely know how to read. Much less does he seem to know the difference between the man in the street and a convicted thief. As a result, Tenebe stepped out of the dark dungeons where APC leaders stumble around and I speak as the first to identify the collapse of the party as far back as February , to accuse Mr.

Ighodalo does not waste time. Two months ago, he had also swiftly sued Oshiomhole for N20bn for associating him with an alleged pyramid scheme in which numerous Nigerians were defrauded. What was at stake on the floor of the Assembly on Tuesday was not ethics or even education: it was literacy. Okpebholo had, somehow, won a senatorial seat.

- p. Olumhense, Sonala. No second

He was appearing in the House as state governor, although that election is in dispute. He was taking the microphone to show the people of Edo that he could read. He could not. Surely he must have had at least one night—or the breakfast hour in Government House—to practice the reading of his own budget address?