Ofehe played an active role in the civil demonstrations led by the Student Union movement calling on the military junta to vacate power and confirm Chief MKO Abiola as the democratically elected president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
program at The Hague University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands in 2016 and suspended the studies to take part in the Delta State governorship elections in 2019.
Ofehe adopted a non-violent approach to his advocacy and played a prominent role in bringing an end to hostage taking in the Niger Delta.
Due to his activities to foster peace in the Niger Delta region, Nigeria's former president, Goodluck Jonathan, extended an invitation to Ofehe.
On 25 and 26 February 2010, Ofehe hosted stakeholders in the Niger Delta Peace process to an international Conference in The Hague, Netherlands, that was instrumental in finding a solution to the problems of youth restiveness in the Niger Delta region and also invited an aide to the then Nigerian President on Niger Delta and Head of the Nigerian Presidential Amnesty Programme, Kingsley Kuku, to engage senior European politicians in Paris including addressing the Institute of French Foreign Relations (IFRI) in Paris, France and a selected European Union Committee members in Brussels, Belgium.
[6][7][8][9][10] Ofehe narrowly escaped a bomb blast that rocked his room at the government guest house in Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria.
[13] In 2015, Ofehe led four other Dutch nationals to cover the sufferings of 12 cluster communities located around the Nigerian two biggest offshore drilling platforms; the Bonga oilfield and the EA oil fields with combined daily production of almost 500,000 bpd and they were kidnapped.
The kidnap attracted global attention and Ofehe appeared on the Dutch television show "Pauw"[14][15][16] Since 2011 on a yearly basis, Ofehe has addressed the plenary session United Nations Forum on Minority Issues in Geneva, Switzerland where he has always advocated for the rights of the minority people of the oil rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria.
At the International World Water Day celebration in March, Ofehe has been a major guest speaker at the Inter Eco Forum Conference in Marbella, Spain.
In 2021, Ofehe alongside former Dutch MP Harry van Bommel invited the members of the Nigerian Senate Committee on Public Complains, Ethics and Privileges to Leiden, the Netherlands for a training.
[22] He said he wanted to be governor to put an end to the sufferings of his people and bring about diversified sources of revenue to Delta state and reduce the dependency on oil and federal allocations.
Ofehe later stepped down after top party chieftains weighed in and said they will unanimously endorse Chief Great Ogboru as the APC candidate for 2019.