In August 2016, former Delta state governor James Onanefe Ibori (1999–2007) turned 57. In his hometown Oghara his birthday was celebrated in his absence, with gigantic cakes that weighed as much as a toddler born in the four years since Ibori was sentenced to 13 years in jail for fraud. Ifeanyi Okowa, the current governor of Delta state, and a member of Ibori’s cabinet while in office, bankrolled newspaper advertorials and released a statement proclaiming “the sterling contributions of Ibori to the development of Delta State and Nigeria” as “legendary.”

More: http://www.naijiant.com/guestcolumn/jailbird-james-ibori-celebrated-homeland/

Because he's a victim of some powerful citizens.

The jailbird comes from a land where being a jailbird has no shame or stigma.

Shey if I tel u,u go start to mind ur business?

His homeland is filled with shameless, jobless, corrupt citizens.

Why is a certificateless man celebrated in his homeland?

You should ask why the convicted duo of Bola and Remi Tinubu are worshipped as regional political heavyweights in yoruba land despite their drug dealing past or why a mutinous war criminal hypocrite and certificate forger like buhari is considered a saint by many.

Onechancearmy:
The jailbird comes from a land where being a jailbird has no shame or stigma.

Just like Tinubu is celebrated

Ibori brought a lot of development to his hometown and d state in general.

The same reason tinubu is celebrated in Lagos,abacha is celebrated in kano,orji uzor kalu is celebrated in abia....Nigerians are ethnicallly sentimental to crooks!!!...they love crooks more than saints....no one celebrates pat utomi,gani fawehinmi,ribadu...the prefet asari,tompolo ochendo and tinubu..we deserve what we get!!!

Watch the flat heads mentioning Tinubu like early morning poem.

Lagosians celebrate tinubu because is the architect of the current reforms in lagos

Some people celebrate buhari because he's making an attempt to fight corrution

Why is ibori celebrated?