Thousands of people hired by former Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Peter Godsday Orubebe, last Thursday turned against him when he failed to pay them.
Mr. Orubebe, who had hired the crowd from across Delta State, is a candidate for the governorship of the state. Godsday Orubebe “The same people he hired to show support for him staged a mass protest against him because he did not meet his promise to pay them,” according to one source.The protesters reportedly gathered at Mr. Orubebe’s campaign office shortly after the former minister’s declaration in Asaba, the capital of Delta State.
Mr. Orubebe has long eyed the governorship seat in Delta State, and has formally announced his intention to run in 2015. “Elder Orubebe sent his people to go all over the state and rent crowds of people, but in the end he did not pay the sum of N200 to N500 that his people promised to pay the crowd he rented from every nook and cranny of the state,” said a spokesman for a civil rights group based in Delta. The source added that people like Mr. Orubebe represented the politics of voter inducement that has caused a lot of moral disruption and led to democratic woes in the state and Nigeria at large. The visibly angry protesters, who included women, men and the youths, rained curses on Mr. Orubebe, describing him as fraudster who is not fit to govern the state.
They also accused him of looting funds during his tenure as Minister of Niger Delta Affairs. “Why can’t he pay us common two hundred naira that he said he will pay?” one of the protesters stated, admitting that he was recruited from Ogwashi Uku to pose as a supporter of the former minister.

Dem never finish dis matter?

PDP states are really suffering for the people to accept 200 to support a politician.

Nigerian politicians are joke.

Come again! Did you just say people sold their conscience and possibly their votes for N200 ?

If you find out, the crowd is dominated by youths yet we are told people like Buhari should not be voted just so the youth can rule.

The youth is busy and should be allowed to concentrate on what they know better. They are busy shagging their trousers, chasing after different girls, drawing tattoos, ripping people off their hard earned money in the name of revenge for slave trade.

I am sure when the youth is ready, the elderly will voluntarily give way.

It's obvious politicians would never eradicate poverty, it favors them

i was in asaba along anwai road when all this accidents happened..it was tru the @op said... thats politics for you


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What a shame? Poverty abounds in Delta State.

200 naira. It can't even buy any data.

The painful part about it is that he still didn't pay them. Yet they would gather tomorrow and vote for him. I wonder why the youths still do this political crowd poo. All I ever hear I'd that they werent paid and yet they still gather.

The energy spent for the campaign cannot be replenished with 200 naira beans.

Orubebe is one of the most "useless" politician ever recorded in history!

I pity his people!

Yeye politician
yeye crowd