{"id":72778,"date":"2020-04-14T16:29:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T15:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=72778"},"modified":"2020-04-14T16:29:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T15:29:24","slug":"covid-19-lockdown-rep-uko-nkole-donates-10-cups-of-rice-n5-000-to-widow-mocks-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/covid-19-lockdown-rep-uko-nkole-donates-10-cups-of-rice-n5-000-to-widow-mocks-opponents\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID -19 Lockdown: Rep. Uko Nkole donates 10 cups of rice, N5, 000 to widow, mocks Opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nMember representing Arochukwu\/Ohafia federal constituency of Abia state
\nin the House of Representatives, Hon. Uko Nkole, appears to be using the
\nsufferings of his constituents over the COVID-19 lockdown to play
\npolitics and settle scores with his opponents.Nkole had donated N5,000 cash and ten cups of rice\u00a0 to a widow, Mrs
\nAgboho Nwaigwe, mother of his opponent, Mr. John Sunday\u00a0 Nwaigwe. Few
\nhours after the donation, Nkole’s aides posted the gifts on the
\nlawmaker’s page on facebook , mocking Nwaigwe as someone who couldn’t
\ntake care of his mother.<\/p>\n

However, responding to the lawmaker’s Greek gift, the widow’s son,
\nNwaigwe, later returned the lawmaker 10 cups of rice and the cash of
\nN5,000 to him and bought a bag of rice and gave\u00a0 N20,000 cash to his
\nmother.<\/p>\n

Sources told Pointblanknews.com that Nwaigwe has been an unrepentant
\ncritic of the lawmaker on social media, portraying evidences of his non
\nperformance in his about 5years stay at the National Assembly.<\/p>\n

The sources added that the lawmaker has been worried over Nwaigwe’s
\nactivities in exposing the poor state of infrastructure in his
\nconstituency. Nwaigwe had urged Nkole to provide food items to cushion
\nthe effects of the lockdown on his constituents.<\/p>\n

Nkole, who is on his second term in the House of Reps, is said to be
\nnursing a governorship ambition to succeed Governor Okezie Ikpeazu in
\n2023 and has been consulting with PDP stakeholders across the state,
\nparticularly those believed to be close to the governor.<\/p>\n

A constituent, Kalu Agwu , said the lawmaker who hails from the same
\nAbam community in Arochukwu local government area, may have plotted to
\nmock Nwaigwe by donating the items to his mother and\u00a0 asking his aides
\nto make a video\u00a0 of it.<\/p>\n

According to Agwu, “No sooner than the widow received the gifts than Uko
\nUkole’s aides who made a video of the donation shared it on his facebook
\npage mocking Nwaigwe. They brandished videos and pictures of the widow
\nreceiving ten cups of rice and a cash gift of N5, 000. There is no doubt
\nthat Uko Nkole did it to portray the widow as a beggar and ridicule her
\nson as incapable of taking care of her. But as soon as the video went
\nviral, John Sunday Nwaigwe returned the 10 cups of rice and a cash of
\nN5, 000, to Nkole and presented a bag of rice and a cash of N20, 000 to
\nhis widowed mother.<\/p>\n

“We have over 5,000 women and widows in Arochukwu\/Ohafia federal
\nConstituency, but he singled out the aged widow for the food items to
\nvilify her and her son. Is she the only widow in Arochukwu\/Ohafia
\nfederal constituency?”<\/p>\n

A cross section of residents of Abam community, who condemned the
\naction, disclosed that the lawmaker is noted for vindictiveness,
\nstressing that he has been unable to assist members of his immediate
\nfamily, most of who lack jobs.<\/p>\n

In their words; “Those of us, who know Uko Nkole and his family too well
\nare not disturbed by his activities because he has not been able to
\nemancipate his family members out of abject poverty. Can Uko Nkole tell
\nthe world why his brothers, uncles and aides are languishing in poverty?
\nHis uncle, Godwin Nkole, alias Okula, is roaming about in Umuahia with
\nthe lawmaker doing nothing.<\/p>\n

“If his family members were comfortable, would his younger brother,
\nJimmy Nkole have sold his uncompleted building in Ozu Abam to another
\nperson to build a pure water factory just because of his inability to
\npay back a loan of less than a million naira he took from a bank?<\/p>\n

“If his family members were also comfortable as he has claimed, would
\ntheir only sister, Jessica Nkole be wondering the whole of Abam
\naimlessly all in her bid to make ends meet? If he has been taking care
\nof his aides, would his media aide, Ibem Onwuka Ibem, at his age, still
\nlive in Nkole’s detached boys’ quarter in his house along BCA road,
\nUmuahia?, the constituents queried.<\/p>\n

Efforts to get Nkole’s reaction to the allegations were unsuccessful as
\nhis mobile phone kept ringing without response.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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