Donald Ojogo

Donald Kimikanboh Ojogo (born 25 October 1968) is a Nigerian politician of the All Progressives Congress who serves as a Member of the Nigerian House of Representatives representing Ilaje/Ese-Odo Federal Constituency. Quotes First and foremost, we’ve not come out as a government that we are opposed to direct primary; neither had Mr Governor expressed aversion for same. We’re not afraid of any mode of primary. And I’ll want the public to know too that the noise being orchestrated by those in the Unity Forum for direct primary is to put out a narrative that Mr. Governor is opposed to any direct primary. In fact, we’ll even prefer a direct primary. So those who are making noise about direct primary are only wasting their time. For those who clamour for direct primary, the message to them is that Governor Akeredolu is more prepared for any mode of primary than those who clamour for direct. Donald interview response to the question 'it seems the body language of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu is calling for indirect. What is the situation of things in that regard?' Scared? Does it not sound preposterous that in a camp of very deceitful governorship aspirants or governorship hopefuls of about six or seven who cannot put their heads together that the only slogan bringing them together is direct primary. It’s laughable and that is unfortunate. You can’t put something on nothing. What is the basis for this clamour for direct primary? They are very irreconcilable, well contradictory, with very lethal interests against one another. These are people who cannot come together, so takes such seriously. Donald interview response to the question 'Are you saying the governor is not scared of direct primary?' We don’t have anything like plan B, plan A and even plan C. All we know is that we are going into the primary of the APC to win and going to the election of October 10, to defeat whoever will be presented by any party. So, we have nothing like plan B. We can’t discuss plan B, there is no basis for us to even discuss plan B. Donald interview response to the question 'Is the governor considering ‘Option B’ peradventure he couldn’t get the APC’s ticket?' I also do not know. I lack the competence to know if Mr. Governor is picking another running mate; and why so, if at all, ask yourself. Mr. Governor does not believe that a winning team must be changed. He, Akeredolu is the winning team. But he also does not think that he has the power to stop anybody who does not want to belong to the winning team; he doesn’t have the powers to force anybody to stay put. Donald interview response to the question 'Is the governor picking another running mate?' Mr. Governor is not interested in impeaching or removing anyone. He’s not interested. That is not even his business. Mr. Governor believes that whoever wants to leave his government can leave at any time. He will not raise a finger to push anybody out. If the governor is having enough majority, a comfortable majority that is more than two-third in the House of Assembly and he has no problem dealing with them, then why must he go-ahead that they must impeach someone? Donald interview response to the question 'The governor is said to have lost the majority number of lawmakers, hence his inability to carry out the alleged impeachment of his deputy. How true is that claim?' As a representative of the peo­ple, he is entitled to his own opin­ion; he is entitled to his own views. I’m also from the area. When I read through the interview, three things came to my mind, either he was inspired by lack of adequate information or he was misquot­ed or he acted out of emotions. These are pardonable instances, very pardonable but the truth of the matter is that it will be wrong for him to say that this is the only government, unlike previous gov­ernments that has marginalized the Ijaws. Donald interview response to the question 'the minority Ijaws in the state are being marginalised by the Akeredo­lu-led government as alleged by the APC lawmaker representing Ese- Odo State Constituency, Success Torhukerhijo ?' We are all Ijaws from Ese-Odo. I’m a full-blooded Arogbo-Ijaw man. My mother, my father are all Arogbo, so nobody can claim to love Arogbo more than me. When you talk about the Gover­nor not liking Ijaw people, I laugh because this is a governor whose mother is also an Ijaw woman and deputy from Ese-Odo. That was the reason the governor handed over everything concerning Ese- Odo to his deputy to handle. No­body can claim to be more Ijaw than Governor Akeredolu who is from Ese-Odo. Donald interview response to the question 'Then what do you think is the missing link?' He even knows more than these. If he is talking about the marginalisation of the Ijaws, I expected him to ask a pertinent question. Why did we not have at least one of the big OSOPADEC projects out of three that were given to Ese-Odo, in Arogbo? OS­OPADEC earmarked to embark on seven major projects, very good projects that won’t be less than N100 million each; four in Ilaje and three in Ese-Odo. In the whole of Arogbo, none was considered. The three that came to Ese-Odo, the deputy governor out of hatred for the Arogbo people, ignored us; not even one was given to us be­cause he decided the siting of the three projects. I can tell you that rather than blame the governor, we should ask the deputy gover­nor, how fair has he been in the exercise of the privilege given to him by Governor Akeredolu? The deputy governor has been most unfair to Arogbo-Ijaws, not Ak­eredolu. Donald interview response to the question 'Are you saying the lawmaker knows all these but will decide to blackmail the governor and his party?' External links Category:Politicians from Nigeria Category:1968 births Category:Living people