When newsmen got across to the former junior minister on the telephone on Wednesday in Benin, he said he had not seen his former wife since 2011. He also said he had nothing new to add to what is already in the public domain about the car scandal.
He however did not offer any opinion regarding the action of NCAA and his former wife’s likely role in the country’s show of profligacy, saying both had not seen since she became minister.
The former minister for state said Nigerians know of what has been happening and that he had nothing to say or add. He however empathised with her.
Said Ogiemwonyi, “What concerns me about her? We have been separated and since she became minister, we have not seen. You know the time when the issue of dropping my name came up. We have not seen since then. We all read comments in the papers, everybody is listening and even the National Assembly, on the blogs; they are all full. But all I can tell you is that I last saw Stella in May 2011; that was when I saw her last. Since she became minister, I haven’t seen her. All I can say is that I wish her well, but there is nothing more I can say.”
Asked whether he was not bothered about the controversy generated by the minister’s predicament, he said that was the least of his problems.
Both Ogiemwonyi and Oduah were said to and become friends when they were working for the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation. While the former husband was a young engineer, Oduah was with the account department of the oil corporation. Their friendship blossomed and they later became husband and wife.
A blue-blood, Stella Oduah is the daughter of Igwe D. O. Oduah, Akili Ozizo of Ogbaru in Anambra State. She was born on January 5, 1962. After her studies at St. Paul’s College, Lawrence Ville, Virginia in the United States in 1983, Oduah joined the Nigeria National Petroleum Company.
Speaking in an interview three years ago, Oduah explained why she joined the government-owned corporation.
She said, “I wanted to be in oil and gas, and I felt my first leg should be in a national company and NNPC happened to be the in-thing at that time. It was either NNPC or banking and I just didn’t go into banking. I wanted oil and gas and so I was lucky I passed the interview at NNPC and I went in.”
In 1992, she floated Sea Petroleum and Gas with a reported N200,000 bank facility. Her reason: “I don’t think I left NNPC to set up SPG.
“I left NNPC because I wanted to do something more challenging. I left NNPC because I wasn’t getting enough job satisfaction. That’s why I left.”
A beautiful woman with a fearless gut that could make so many men question their masculinity, Oduah’s SPG, with a dodgy track record, has become an octopus in the oil and gas. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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So what caused the separation? Make your report complete noww. Or do you now want to conceal the man's well documented infedelities? What made him lose his position as a junior Minister? Pls up your journalistic standards!
ReplyDeleteAnon 8:13 am, what are u talking about, if u don't know how to coment just shut up. Oduah is a bad and unfaithful woman. I wonder why FG should give a position to such a woman knowing full well she is no longer with her husband. That means she is irresponsible, ashawo. Since 2011, that means she used her yansh to get the position. Yeye woman.
ReplyDeleteI keep wondering why divorcees will be considered for political offices in this country. Is it that there is no other qualified woman in this country except her. A woman who failed in her family of course will not make a good leader since she cannot lead her family well being that family is the smallest unit of the society. Anyway,let's just believe her case will be a different one and her appointment was based on competence and not on god-father ism.
ReplyDeleteEverybody @ NNPC know how she used what she has to get what herself employed @ NNPC
ReplyDeleteSo all you commenters above are saying that a failed marriage is the fault of a woman? Typical Nigerian stupid, ignoramus, backward mentality. A failed marriage can be anybody's fault. It can be the fault of the husband or the mother in law. I thought they said a man is the head of the family. So if a marriage fails, why aren't you blaming the head or the leader of the family?
ReplyDeleteso you want to tell me that all those men in government are living with their wives and are faithful?
ReplyDeleteFaithful or Not, I good, God fearing, responsible woman will protect her home. Patricia Etteh did the same. Most of these divorced women in politics are not be responsible at all.
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