16th May 2025 was not a pleasant day for the immediate past governor of Delta State, Sen Dr. A.I. Okowa. It was a day he will not forget in a hurry, a day he was literally laid on the ground, beaten up mercilessly, and trashed into the gutter by the courageous women of my community. He never bargained for what he got. He left the community as dejected as a wet hen.
I guess some of us saw a recent viral video of the incident on the Internet, In the video clip the women of Idumuesah, my ancestral community could be seen interrupting and telling the almighty Ekwueme of the crumbled PDP to keep quiet and go to hell as he attempted to address them, lie to a people he considered ignorant, illiterate and unaware of the happenings around them, but to his greatest shock, the women did not allow him to utter a word, they bounced on him with vitriolic venoms, lay curses on him.
Also in the video clip, the women could be seen pointing their ten fingers at Okowa, calling him a liar, useless, and a shameless man. Waka!, Shege! . Some of them went as far as to raise their wrappers and display their haunches to him.
In our culture, we know what it means when a woman raises her ten fingers towards a man; it becomes a taboo and a curse when she bends her half-naked butt towards the man; those acts are the worst demeaning gestures a woman could display to vent her anger on any man she considers useless. Efulefu.
It was some friends of mine, those who know me to hail from the community, who forwarded the video clip to me; they wanted to know what happened and why the immediate past governor of Delta State was so badly humiliated by the women of my community.
Although I was aware of the empowerment rally, as they call it, I did not bother to attend; I do not attend Okowa’s rallies, which he uses to brainwash, hypnotize, and deceive the people his policies have impoverished.
However, the curiosity to know what drove the women to revolt against the dead PDP’s maximum leader prompted me to carry out a painstaking investigation into the incident to find out why they viciously attacked the man they called their leader.
My findings were shocking, heartbreaking, and stranger than fiction, to the extent that skipping even the messy parts of this report will render it incomplete; it is a long piece.
Please relax and enjoy Okowa’s act of wizardry and satanic policy of total annihilation of the Idumuesah clan.
It must be pointed out that the women’s riot was not planned nor sponsored, nor was it based on trivial issues like the sharing of Okowa’s *bread of sorrow, he referred to as empowerment* though that was what triggered the riot. The protest was an impulsive action resulting from pent-up anger, an anger built up in the women over the years against Okowa’s numerous scams and bad policies towards the Idumuesah clan.
*Brief On Idumuesah Clan*
Idumuesah clan is one of the fourteen clans that make up Ika North East LGA; it lies at the center of Ika Nation; what could be referred to as Ika Central, It is bounded by Owa clan in the North West, Abavo clan in the South, and Ute Okpu clan in the East, It is less than a minute’s drive from Owa Alero, Okowa’s village.
It was a bustling agrarian community, well known for the cultivation of Yams, Cassava, Palm produce, and varieties of vegetables.
Then Eke Market in Idumuesah was one of the busiest markets in Ikaland.Traders from Warri, Sapele, Lagos, and the Eastern part of the country troop Idumuesah to buy the abundant farm produce from the community.
It has a sizable population with
a voting strength of more than ten thousand registered voters; its large voting population in Boji Boji Owa is not included.
Idumuesah remains one of the communities where the defunct PDP harvests votes during elections. It has voted for Okowa massively in all the elections he has contested.
During the 2015 Delta state governorship election (Okowa’s first term), the community gave him close to eight thousand solid votes, far more than the votes he got from his Owa Alero community.
Suffix said that Idumuesah was a thriving community before the political locust called Okowa invaded the community and destroyed everything he met.
*Okowa’s bad policies in my community, the anger of the people*.
As soon as Okowa became governor of Delta State, he introduced what he called urbanization, and the only village he urbanized in the entire Delta State was his village, Owa Alero. Urbanization of his village means depopulation of the Idumuesah clan, the next-door neighbor
Okowa deployed trillions of state resources to transform Owa Alero into a megacity overnight, tarred all the roads in his village, including farm roads, without extending a trickle of it to Idumuesah, the community that calls him brother.
*How Okowa implemented his evil plans against Idumuesah*
1. He dualized the Owa Ekei road (constructed by ex-governor James Ibori, an Urhobo man) from Owa Ekei junction along the old Lagos-Asaba road; he stopped the road dualization at the Owa Alero roundabout and carried out palliative work on the section leading to Idumuesah. When he got to the boundary between Owa Alero and Idumuesah, he stopped the remedial work on the road. My community raised funds and mobilized the youth, who used cement and granite to repair the remaining bad portions of the road leading to the community.
2. Okowa electrified the road with high-grade solar power, beginning from the same Owa Eke Junction down to every corner of Owa Alero, and stopped the electrification project at the same boundary between his community and Idumuesah. Again, the pioneer students of Idumuesah Secondary raised funds to complete the electrification of the road to the community.
3. Before Okowa’s 2019 reelection for a second term. He suddenly remembered Idumuesah, where he usually garnered huge votes, and he pulled a fast one on the community. He deployed one of his road construction companies; they came, did some palliative work on the link road to my village, the portions already patched by the youths. They announced that they were going to tar Idumuzugbo road (roughly 800m in length), one of the roads in the community. The company came with two bulldozers and pulled down all the shops belonging to bicycle repairers, Akara sellers, and other petty traders along the road. The shops where the villagers earn a living. They removed the two bulldozers as soon as the 2019 election was over and abandoned the road project.
4. In late 2022, when Okowa was running for what he now admitted was an ill-conceived VP to Atiku and at the same time sponsoring his daughter for the Ika North East State Assembly seat, he then remembered Idumuesah again and brought back the two bulldozers to the same abandoned Idumuzugbo road and started filling them with granites. He added the late Chief Egbule (the Ozomor of Idumuesah, one of his stout supporters), road but removed the two bulldozers again as soon as the 2023 election was over. At the moment of writing this report, the two roads are uncomplicated and abandoned. Same with Agbogwe Road. Okowa plans to use them to campaign for his 2027 senatorial election and his daughter’s reelection campaign in 2027.
5. During his first tenure, he announced that he was going to appoint one of Idumuesah’s sons, a refined gentleman, as chairman of the Delta State Independent Electoral Commission (DSIEC); before we dropped the cups of palm wine we were drinking in celebration of the news, abracadabra! Okowa announced his clansman, the chairman of the commission.