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South-South governors, stakeholders, meet on Tuesday

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The South-south governors and stakeholders from the geo-political zone will Tuesday meet in Calabar, Cross River state to choose a replacement to the newly appointed Minister of the Niger Delta, Dr. Steve Oru. Before his appointment as minister, Oru was the national vice chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the South-south.

It was gathered that the PDP governors and stakeholders have agreed to a new national vice chairman in the person of the former member of the House of Representatives, Dr. Cairo Ojougbo. He is from Delta state. According to top PDP sources, there are two members of the PDP from Delta state contesting for the office apart from Ojougbo.

 The other contestant is Chief Emmanuel Ogidi who was a former Delta state chairman of the PDP when James Ibori was the governor of the state. Ogidi later served as Delta state representative in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

It was gathered that the aspiration of Ojougbo is being championed by the Delta state governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan and the leader of Ijaw nation, Chief Edwin Clark among other PDP state holders.

The meeting of the PDP governors and stakeholders from the South-south zone taking place in Calabar is to ratify the nomination of Ojougbo, but a PDP source said that where there is no consensus on the candidacy of Ojougbo, then there would be a contest between two of them for the office of the national vice chairman of the South-south.

Ogidi is said to be enjoying the support of the supporters of the former Delta state, Ibori who is currently serving a jail term in a London Prison. The source told reporters that if Ojougbo is appointed the national vice chairman of PDP in the South-south, that it would have a direct impact on the governorship ambition of Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, who hails from the same Ika area of Delta state with Ojougbo.

 Also, the source said if the choice of Ogidi is appointed as the national vice chairman of the party for the zone, it means that the former governor of the state, James Ibori is still having an upper hand in the state, despite being imprisoned in London.

 

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