By Amb Prince Awhotu,
What happened at the just Concluded UPU election was not just failure—
It was a monumental disgrace, a total collapse of honour, a loud announcement that some Urhobo sons and daughters are still chained to ignorance, manipulation, and greed.
Our ancestors declared “Urhobo ovuo-vo”—Urhobo is one. But the so-called UPU election revealed a broken truth:
Urhobo is bleeding because some of its own children have become willing tools of destruction.
Instead of unity, we saw political warlords importing their battles into UPU.
Instead of progress, we saw PDP vs APC madness, turning UPU into an arena of shameless political wrestling.
Instead of dignity, we witnessed raw thuggery, open intimidation, and decisions written long before voting even began.
Let the world hear it: UPU did not conduct an election—UPU staged a political abomination.
A constitution that should guide them was trampled underfoot.
Procedures that should protect fairness were ignored with arrogance.
And elders who should be honoured were treated like shadows.
But the greatest insult of all—
The unforgivable disgrace—
Was the humiliation of our revered Urhobo kings.
They invited custodians of our heritage, pillars of our culture, only to dump them on plastic chairs and plastic tables like roadside spectators.
Is that how you treat the bearers of Urhobo identity?
The disrespect was so deep that the Orodje of Okpe—A WHOLE FIRST-CLASS KING—walked out in righteous anger.
That single act exposed the rot inside UPU more than any speech ever could.
And look at the UPU house—
A national secretariat that should be a beacon of pride—
But instead looks like a forgotten forest, a symbol of decay, neglect, and failure.
No fans. No AC. No honour. No shame.
Yet these same people want to lead Urhobo?
Lead us where? Into darkness? Into disgrace? Into backwardness?
Let truth be declared boldly:
The true winners by integrity, by spirit, by the will of the people are the MUGA Team led by Simeon Owhofa.
The announcement made by that compromised ELECTORAL committee is nothing more than political noise.
It does not carry the soul, the heartbeat, or the mandate of Urhobo.
And to the delegates who sold their conscience—
Those who traded the destiny of Urhobo for envelopes and promises—
Understand this:
No one sells a nation and escapes the judgment of time.
Our ANCESTORS do not sleep.
The consequences of betraying your people are heavier than any man-made punishment.
History will expose you.
Generations will reject your memory.
Your name will be recorded on the wrong side of Urhobo history.
Finally, let the fire burn into every heart:
A new Urhobo must rise.
Not the UPU we just witnessed—a union hijacked, compromised, and bent out of shape—
But a new platform built by URHOBO PATRIOTS, men and women who cannot be bought, who cannot be controlled, who cannot be intimidated.
A union that will honours our kings.
A union that will respects our constitution.
A union that will protects our collective destiny.
A union that will walks in the true warrior spirit of our ANCESTORS.
This is the moment of awakening.
This is the hour of truth.
This is the call for rebirth.
Urhobo must rise.
Urhobo must roar.
Urhobo must reclaim its greatness.
—Amb PRINCE AWHOTU
