FULL TEXT OF SIR OPUNABO INKO-
TARIAH’S RESIGNATION AS GOVERNOR
WIKE’S MEDIA AIDE
Sir, Let me start by thanking you for finding me
worthy of serving you, and the state in my
capacity as SPECIAL ADVISER on Media and
Publicity,for this i shall remain grateful.
However, with the unfolding developments, it is
irretrievable that my services are no longer
needed, and to this end, subterfuges are
employed to send the message across.
Sir permit me to dredge up the facts that plank
my conviction on.
For the first two Months i worked with you, not a
kobo was given to me as Impress/Overload.
Apart from paid advertorials and when you
briefed the press, every other publications were
done at my own cost. Infact, in most cases,
announcements made at your behest were paid
for by me or done pro- bono.
In the third month, you approved the sum
#5,000,000.OO(Five Million Naira) as monthly
impress. This was obviously grossly inadequate
compared to the pecuniary monthly obligations of
my office that gulped #4,800,000,00(Four Million
eight hundred thousand).These are obligations
inherited from the Rotimi Amaechi’s government.
Attached are how the payments are made to
bolster my assertions.
With this, i am left with #200,000.00(Two
Hundred Thousand Naira) to manage the press
for one month. There are times when journalist
who cover occasions in government house leave
without a kobo.
It is pertinent to also state for the records that no
time did i threaten to arrest journalist with
policemen. Even when i tried to explain, you
rebuffed me.
Furtherance have written several memoranda to
you on efficacious Publicity. All memoranda were
returned to me untreated have also attached
herewith such memoranda.
Sir, i resolved to work with you all my heart, but
what i got in return is gratuitous derision.
On several occasions after i noticed your hostile
attitude towards me, i approached you for
clarification and resolutions but was denied any
chance to speak, this prompted my fist
resignation move, after which you called and
cautioned and asked me to go back to work.
Things got festered from them on.
I fell in the bathroom and sustained several head
injuries, with the plaster on my head,i met you in
the office to explain things to you. All you said
was that i should go and treat myself. This was
about two months ago, sadly you have never
asked me about the injuries.
On Thursday October 22nd 2015,i had a close
shave with death on my way from Buguma as
assassins riddled “my car”. I sent you a text on
the development, but up till now you have never
called me to ask questions.
You got back from Abuja on Saturday, after the
Tribunal verdict only to spleen on me. Although
one may understand that given the Tribunal
verdict, you showed no concern at all after the
day of your broadcast. On the Sunday, you had
solidarity church service, i was with you in the
morning for the broadcast, on my way to the
church service felt dizzy and went home. Shortly
after i started vomiting blood. Emeka Woke(COS)
and the SSA on protocol were informed and they
rushed to my House. I was reliably informed that
you were briefed by Engr.Emeka Woke but did
not bother to know if i was okay or not. This is
bloodcurdling. My life means nothing to you,i
sent a memo to you for imprimatur to travel to
the United States for medical attention, without
asking for money. That memo has been on your
desk for about three weeks.
Sir, the climax of your disdain for me was the
rebuttal in which you dissociated yourself from
an innocuous statement made concerning the
judiciary and the verdict.
When you called me on Wednesday to express
your disapproval apologized profusely on the
phone with a promise that it shall not repeat
itself. You asked if i was actually with your or
not, and i said I was. This sincere assurance
could not placate you because of your mindset.
Thank God the likes of O.C.J Okocha, SAN saw
nothing wrong in my statement. The rebuttal was
a good opportunity for you to ridicule me in
public and show disapproval of my still working
with you. Your rebuttal obviate the need for
further evidence of your absolute loss of
confidence in me. This i failed to discern when
you ordered that i must not be a member of the
ONE HUNDRED DAYS IN OFFICE COMMITEE and
INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION COMMITEE.
Initially, you claimed the publicity on you was
poor and when it improved, you said i was only
popularizing myself, you saw nothing good in
anything i did. You called me and cautioned me
that you were always in the news. You further
said that most of us will know our fate after the
Tribunal.
On the white paper Press Briefing, it was
suggested that I brief the press(and rightly
too),but you spurred. The Issue is not my not
briefing the press but the contempt. Your
infectivity to my close shave with death
awakened reminiscence of when you said i can
go and Die with my father, when i coughed in
your office. You worked me out of your office,
saying “If i you want to die, go and die with your
father “. interesting! This was after you queried
why E.C AGUMA,SAN and I were close despite
the fact that my dad, the late Hon. Justice Chief
Opubo Inko-Tariah sentenced the late Chief
E.AGUMA to Death in the Ndabros matter.It was
even E.C Aguma,SAN who even corrected the
impression because my late dad never found the
Late Chief Aguma guilty and so never ever
convicted him.
The issue of your controversial visit to the CJN is
still green, you called me two weeks after(On the
Day PUNCH Published it online) to ask what my
reactions were and why queried why i was not
proactive. Tersely, I said i never knew of the visit
because you never told me although we were in
Abuja together or else i would not have pro-
acted. However told the Press the visit was to
resolve the thorny issue of a substantive CJ for
the state. Few days later, you said i told the
Press i was not aware and I replied that I never
did and that the statement was made to you
alone. All I told the press was that your visit was
to resolve the vexed issue of substantive CJ.I
never knew your allegations was only a veneer.
As a Special Adviser, I have no befitting to
accommodate my PAs and SAs yet i carried on.
Let me not bore you further with what I know you
dismiss as prolixity.
I sincerely advise that you give penetrating
thoughts to your leadership paradigm. The people
around you are people ready to die for your sake.
Do not dampen their spirits. They are but human
beings. Experience is Pre-eminent where advice
is ignored.
I conclude Sir, by once more thanking you for
opportunity and wish you God’s guidance and
blessings as i exit your government.
Thank you and God bless.
Your’s
Sir Opunabo .C. Inko-Tariah.LCIA.ACAIArb

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FTC......Baba God na u ooo.

Serves you right...
When you eat with the devil, make sure you have a very long spoon!

Matters Arising!

Oboy, this one strong o. I feel for Opunabo and I understand his challenge. I hope all is well within Wike's kitchen cabinet.

TonyeBarcanista:
Oboy, this one strong o. I feel for Opunabo and I understand his challenge. I hope all is well within Wike's kitchen cabinet.

Lemme read

I can feel the young man's impulse, when your drive to serve in an office you must dream for, work for and cherish is not rewarded with ample attention! I was once there! De sole monsueir!

Decamp to APC.

It shows how low self esteemed this so called big men are.


How on earth will any eediot ask me to go and die with my father and i will resume the next day ?

Rivers atate people behave like fools. Voting for WIKE even in the face of his evil.past records. So shameful of a people.

If some1 who is ready to die for you is treated like this, its shows how inhuman dis wike guy can be be to an ordinary citizen of the state. Its shows all the wike want is power and to be called executive governor of Rivers state "ou further
said that most of us will know our fate after the
Tribunal"

Wike build a good human relationship with your inner cacus..no mama piss to run to. At least you see Fayose

Ok

honourhim:
Rivers atate people behave like fools. Voting for WIKE even in the face of his evil.past records. So shameful of a people.

Wike tactfully fooled them to help him convert GEJ's presidential seat into the seat he now occupies while pushing the blame to Amaechi.