The Special Assistant to Comrade (Chief) Ovuozourie Macaulay on Media and Publicity, Comrade Hezekiah Ovedhe has dismissed the media report credited to Barr. Fred Latimore, where he claimed that, Macaulay sponsored Propaganda against Governor Sheriff Oborevwori over the signing out of Faculties of Social Sciences and Management Courses from the Delta State University of Science and Technology, Ozoro to Orerokpe as a Campus.
Hezekiah in a statement issued to journalists, described Latimore statements as baseless, reckless and lack merit.
The statement read in part; “Ordinarily, I would have ignored your overzealousness, however going by your antecedents, doing so will give you more fertile ground to stand truth on it’s head.
“It is shameful and pathetic for a man like you, Barr. Fred Latimore to be so flippant to respond so cheaply to sensitive issues concerning an ‘ethnic Nationality’ that you are not related to in any form or ways. With this your statements published in some Online news medium not this platform, it goes to show how haughty you are with your shameless attitude exhibited so.
“For you to tag a response of a former Secretary to the State Government (SSG) and a Leader in Isoko Nation, Delta State, to an important issue that affects his ethnic nationality as “unsolicited interference” is contemptuous and this shows that you’ve being over rated all the years. You expected Comrade Ovuozourie Macaulay to be silent just like some of his kindreds of Isoko extraction working with the Government and choose to remain mute for the fear of losing their appointments.
“For the records, Comrade Macaulay’s statement never attacked the Governor or his ethnic nationality, i am bold to ask where you picked or conceived that from or was it your own imagination?
“From Comrade Macaulay’s statement which was published, I still imagined at what point he used any wrong language on the Governor.
“It would be appreciated if you point it out.”
“As a government, there is a Commissioner for Information and a Chief Press Secretary, who are the spokespersons to the government, and you are not one of those persons. So what guaranteed you to embark on such fruitless journey of relevance seeking and greedy course.”
Comrade Macaulay is aware of plans to physically attack and clamp down his properties in the state and that is what you are just laying a foundation for since your outburst is outside the discussion.
“But in all, the Comrade (Chief) Ovuozourie Macaulay, the “Okiroro of Isoko Nation” that we know, will not for fear of attack, be it physical or otherwise be quiet over a sensitive issue that affects the lives and future of our generation.”
The statement further added; “Comrade Macaulay has built and maintained very healthy relationships across the various ethnicities in the state and will remain the peace maker he is always known to be.
“His respect for authorities has never been in doubt. Nonetheless, that does not stop him from speaking the truth when there is a need to do so.
“It’s been observed that some Isokos’ here are all observing table manners because they can’t bite the finger that fed them hence, they are silent over sensitive issues like this. Those who are not afraid of anything will speak for our ethic nationality.
I know, you are known for noise making. That’s what put food on your table.
“Otherwise, what’s wrong in what Comrade Ovuozourie Macaulay said? He (Macaulay) even advised the State Governor to reverse the University to it’s former status of “Polytechnic” If he is so interested in putting a University in Orerokpe.
“Those Faculties and departments signed out have 60% population of the University. Moving them out is like turning the University into a glorified Secondary school without population.”