Emeka Esogbue

 Goodbye to an Anioma Political Powerhouse: Ibusa Bleeds as Senator Peter Nwaoboshi Passes On By Emeka Esogbue The Ibusa community was on Friday evening thrown into deep mourning following the reported death of Senator Peter Onyelukachukwu Nwaoboshi, a prominent Nigerian politician and illustrious son of the community. According to a family source, the senator passed away after a period of illness during which he had been battling health challenges. Senator Nwaoboshi, who hailed from Isieke, Umuekea quarters in Ibusa, served as the Senator representing Delta North Senatorial District from 2015 to 2023. A towering figure in Anioma and Delta State politics, he began his political journey in the late 1970s as an aide to the then Governor of the old Bendel State, a role that marked the foundation of a long and influential political career. He later served as Chairman of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, among other strategic national appointments. Beyond this, Nwaoboshi was a political...

Mentor of Ibusa and Anioma Nation: A Biography of Obi (Senator) Nosike Ikpo (1929-2021), Distinguished Senator of Federal Republic of N igeria By Emeka Esogbue In 1979, Ibusa had just made a landmark entry into the Senate representation of Bendel East Senatorial District of the defunct Bendel State through Nosike Ikpo, an illustrious son of the soil who had just been elected under the platform of the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), one of Nigeria’s leading political parties of the time as the Distinguished Senator representing the people of this District. The Ibusa community, though rich in human capital as she sustainably remains today, did not join the Nigerian politics early enough especially in the First Republic as did other Nigerian communities but the personality of Ikpo was to launch the community to attention with the 1979 legislative position held by him so that from 1979-1984, Ibusa bore the senatorial mandate of their group. The area of political picture itself, that he...