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“Our opponents and detractors are definitely cashing in on Mr. Godsday Orubebe’s careless and irresponsible statement and are now using it to insult President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, the Ijaws and even myself that the President and I, are definitely behind him. I have tried to disabuse the minds of the people and deny that neither Mr. President nor I is aware of Mr. Orubebe’s statement.”
He recalled that he was the one who accompanied Orubebe to the State House in Abuja after his confirmation by the Senate as a Minister and to be sworn in as Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria with three other colleagues of his, followed by the embarrassment when the former Secretary to the Federal Government Amb. Babagana Kingibe, informed him that the President had decided not to swear Orubebe in.
“I left the Executive Chambers with Mr Godsday Orubebe and his wife in disgrace but later summed up courage to address the State House Press on the issue,” the former Minister said.  “It is therefore, my advice to the Honourable Minister not to allow the spoils of office to derail him or cause him to take wrong judgement.”
He described as reckless the assertion by Mr. Orubebe that the governorship should be produced on the basis of ethnicity since the Urhobos and the Itsekiris have produced governors and the Ijaws, Isokos and Ndokwas have not.