Deputy Senate President and All Progressive Congress governorship aspirant in Delta State, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has said that he couldn’t had single-handedly written the amended electoral bill as it is being claimed on social media. Speaking at a consultative meeting in Ughelli North, he called on the public to disregard the misinformation making the rounds that he alone wrote the electoral act, noting that the people have been misinformed about the amended act which was enabled by the National Assembly, and duly assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari. “Going forward, we are not going to sit down and allow the…
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By Ifado Atameyo Ahead of the Gubernatorial primaries, a cross section of PDP delegates have called on Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to put the interest of the state over and above any personal grievances in producing his successor. In an opinion poll conducted on thousands of delegates across the state at the conclusion of consultation visits by the aspirants, majority of them said after assessing the personality and programmes of the aspirants, they have seen that Olorogun David Edevbie is unarguably the most qualified and best prepared to deliver on the job. Pointing out that their conviction tallied with Governor Okowa’s…
By ABEL JOHNGOLD ORHERUATA Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the member representing Warri South Constituency II in the Delta State House of Assembly (DTHA), Hon. Matthew Opuoru has outlined a cursory scorecard within his last three years in the State Assembly. Opuoru unveiled some of his achievements as a worthy legislator that deserves a return ticket to the DTHA while addressing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members, delegates and Party faithful in Warri today. He said on assuming office as Lawmaker Warri South Constituency II, buoyed by the desire to reduce the poverty rate and tackle the infrastructural deficit…
The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. –Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare It all looked as if God had stopped being God. It looked as if Gen. Sani Abacha and the gang had become gods determining who must live and who must die. Including Al-Mustapha, and the-then DMI boss, Frank Omenka, Joe Garba and Muhammed Abacha and many others, and not excluding the man with a fulanic protruded nose and big abnormal earlobes like elephant’s ears (Identity intensionally withheld). It seemed we’d reached the end of history. Sergeant Barnabas Jabila aka…
Ahead of PDP primaries, youths numbering over three hundred from Oleh Ward One and Two in Isoko South Local Government Area have staged a peaceful protest barricading the busy Oleh roundabout over the substitution of the names of it’s elected adhoc delegates. The blockage caused heavy vehicular traffic gridlock as the road was closed to traffic for over one hour while security operatives made frantic effort to ensure peace while the protest lasted. The Isoko youths displaying placards with various inscriptions such as “Okowa is a good leader”, “Okowa is a peaceful leader”, “Oleh delegate list should not be tempered…
The Urhobos in Diaspora have renewed support for the governorship bid of the Speaker of Delta State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Sheriff F. O. Oborevwori, in the 2023 general election. The Urhobos in diaspora, in a statement in reaction to the clearance of Rt.Hon Oborevwori by the screening panel of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), rejoiced and congratulated the speaker on the feat. They expressed joy and happiness that Rt.Hon Oborevwori scaled the hurdles in defiance of stiff opposition by his opponents. According to them, Rt Hon Oborevwori was set for victory in the primary election of May 21,…
By Basil Okoh Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa grew up as a thin but brilliant youth. He has always befriended and enamoured of men of muscle and dare-devilry for protection against menacing buddies and rivals who now and then threatened to exploit his frailty. What he lacked in biceps however, he made up for in brains and bookwork. In those days when brain was more respected than brawn, this ensured that he moved ahead unmolested at the top of the class. We can count so many fellows who acted as protectors to the young Ifeanyi Okowa growing up. These protectors, many of…
By Onyeka Ibe I have never met Chief David Edevbie but have been hearing about him and observing his words and actions in Delta State Government circle for a long time. One of the legends I heard (later confirmed) was how he resisted attempts by a high ranking member of their government and political clique to expropriate Delta State money through frivolous and wasteful spending when he was Commissioner of Finance in Chief James Ibori’s government nearly 20 years ago. For this effrontery, the legend went, the senior politician slapped David Edevbie in the face and Edevbie resigned from the…
May 2nd, 2022, the Honourable Member representing Aniocha North Constituency in Delta State House of Assembly, Hon. Engr. Emeka Emmanuel Nwaobi, declared his intention before Aniocha North PDP statutory delegates in Issele-Uku, to return to the Assembly in consolidation of his legislative performances. Nwaobi who was accompanied by eminent Issele-Uku personalities to the PDP Secretariat, told Party Executives and delegates that he has the best qualifications in terms of academics, character, experience and capacity to represent the Constituency again at the House of Assembly. “Now I am here with my report card, like a good student who must present his…
By ODEYA OGBETUO Ahead of the 2023 general elections, a Warri based Niger Delta leader Mr. Igho Egheba Okumagba has reiterated the position of Urhobos of Warri in their determination to retain their territory and ensure that an Urhobo man represent Warri South Constituency 2 in the Delta State House of Assembly in the 2023 general elections. Okumagba who made this assertion while speaking to newsmen in Warri, Delta State said that to avoid looming crisis no Itsekiri man should use proxy to claim indigene of Urhobo of Warri to enable him contest in Warri South Constituency 2 which is predominantly…