From Paul Osuyi, Asaba
Some constituents in Delta north senatorial district (Anioma nation) have expressed concern over the whereabouts of the senator representing the zone, Peter Nwaoboshi.
Nwaoboshi who is the senate committee chairman on Niger Delta, is also the senatorial candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in next year’s election.
But Nwaoboshi the constituents under the umbrella of Concerned Anioma Patriots (CAP) said Delta north has been denied of representation in the past four months as a result of Nwaoboshi’s disappearance from public space.
The group in a statement contended that the development is not unconnected to the manifest impact of the Lagos Appeal Court’s ruling on July 1, 2022 which handed the senator a seven-year jail term.
The group’s coordinator, Iwebelua Fred Nwaokolo, in the statement, therefore called on the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), to disclose the whereabouts of the embattled senator.
Nwaokolo asserted that the senator was neither the first nor will be the last to walk this torturous path as the exact abode of his contemporaries were not hidden.
He also submitted that “the eerie silence on senator Nwaoboshi’s exact abode will invariably engender a plethora of speculative versions.”
The coordinator averred that various suppositional versions making the rounds points that the senator is either at a custodial centre, or at a secret health facility, while yet others say he currently enjoys convoy backed unfettered movement.
“It is a curious paradox that a senatorial zone with highest number of local government areas in the state and endowed with eminently accomplished personalities has been without a representative for upward of ninety-two days,” he stated.
He admonished Malami to reveal Nwaoboshi’s dwelling place, as it will avail Delta north the deserved representation at the senate, while equally dispelling the notion that he (Malami) believes in the Orwellian assertion of “all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others”.