Mrakpor’s divorce claim stirs anger among Delta’s political class

The decision by the former Attorney General of Delta State, Mr. Peter Mrakpor (SAN), to describe some people he failed to mention their name as  “disgruntled politicians” in his press statement announcing his divorce from his wife has stirred the political class in the state.

File photographs of Mrakpor,the wife he said he has parted ways with since 2020; this was taken at the Supreme Court on his investiture December 2020.

Still with the ex-wife on the investiture day.

In a press release issued on Monday, August 9, 2021 announcing his decision to end his marriage, the former Attorney General had referenced to what he said was the rumour that a woman was pregnant with his baby.

Mrakpor said the “allegation is totally false and satanic agenda to destroy his hard-earned reputation as no person is pregnant for him or has a child for him as falsely alleged by a desperate group of disgruntled politicians and enemies”.

Although, political leaders in the state have elected not to speak on Mrakpor’s allegation, some have expressed anger.

However, a politician who preferred not to be named said while the former Attorney General’s wife seemed to have been silent on the press release, those he called “disgruntled politicians” may have taken exception to his allegation.

He said that they know the person Mrakpor referred to as “disgruntled politicians,” a man who, according to him, has made his name in politics, governance and business.

“It is funny that Peter Mrakpor talks of his ‘hard earned reputation’. While the wife may ignore the statement because most female politicians prefer position and fame to what marriage has to offer, those of us who knew Peter a long time ago after spending some years in Lagos will want to ask him, which reputation was hard earned. Was it the reputation of taking the woman of his benefactor in Lagos, which led to his first marriage that ended empty”?

The politician who was visibly angry disclosed that the former Attorney General’s benefactor “who he took his woman and married laid a curse on him and he returned empty to Delta the way he went.

“It was on his return from his failed Lagos sojourn after dissolving his first marriage that he married a politician who maybe was also desperate to marry that she failed to ask questions about who really is Peter Mrakpor. The same Mrakpor who did not know the efforts of the leaders in his local government area to keep the PDP (Peoples Democratic Party), after his  nomination as a commissioner by his wife, Hon. Joan Mrakpor, destroyed the political unity and leadership of his local government area to the present disjointed piece that it is today, causing those he met to leave the PDP for other parties.

“How can he complain about ‘disgruntled politicians’ and hard earned reputation? Is it the reputation of victimizing female staff who alleged that he wanted them  to warm his bed and appearing  at the judicial committee over sexual abuse on female staff even a few weeks ago in Abuja?”

Still in a rage, the political leader boasted that since the former Attorney General has called them disgruntled, they are going to “make the world see the deceit in his character and personality.”

The politician said that to show how inconsistent, deceitful and confused Mrakpor is, he showed pictures from his SAN investiture inside the Supreme Court in December 2020 as uploaded by the media, including the correspondents from Delta State that covered the event, which was relayed in the news on the same marriage Mrakpor claimed to have ended in July 2020.

Mrakpor and a fellow SAN

“So why did he showcase the woman that he claimed in his press release to have ended marriage with, six months later? Is it because of the so many petitions against him as at that time for his dubious activities? Did he need to paint the picture of what he is not?”
Who really is Peter Mrakpor? Time will tell