The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the 48 hours curfew was imposed in the state following wanton destruction of public buildings and other property, including High Court Complex, Asaba.
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Senator Okowa, the flag-bearer of the PDP in the state, against all odds, polled 406 votes to beat his closest rival, Chief David Edevbie, who scored 299; and another leading aspirant in the race, Sir Tony Obuh, who got five votes, and 21 others who contested for the party’s governorship primaries
Tilije was to engage Chief O’tega Emerhor, the former senatorial candidate of the party, who lost to the Peoples Democratic Party, Emmanuel Aguariavwodo, after the death of Senator Pius Ewherido, before trouble erupted
The primary election was conducted across the 29 constituencies of the state.
Consequently, some of the present members of the House who won the primaries have been presented with their Certificates of Returns by the state party Chairman, Chief Edwin Uzor
Declaring officially for the race at the ultra-modern hall of the Peoples Democratic Party in Asaba, Okocha said his entrance into the race again depicts a new dawn for robust political economy in the state
Elder Orubebe, who maintained that “I have a dream to make Delta State get the status of global standard”, vowed to ensure equitable distribution of the state’s resources
The Director-General of Obuh Project 2015, Chief Fred Majemite, in a Statement in Asaba on Tuesday said the event will afford the aspirant the opportunity to articulate his socio-economic agenda for Deltans
Osakwe said Obuh has been sponsoring and financing various political pressure groups that have assisted the party in mass mobilisation of eligible voters for PDP victories in various elections
The highly trumpeted aspirant in the rat race to succeed Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan next year, Mr. Tony Obuh, has declared his applicant status and eagerness to get employment in Delta State Government House, Asaba, as soon as possible.
Obielum, whose ambition suffered setbacks in 2007 when he tested the political waters of the oil rich state with both feet, but was shown the way out in the surprises that are associated with partisan politics in the oil rich state, made the declaration while addressing leaders, elders, women, youths and PDP stakeholders at the Oshimili South PDP secretariat, Asaba
The lawmaker thereafter raised the alarm over attempts by his enemies to truncate his political career and eliminate him
Others are Chief Adolor Okotie-Eboh of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria and Prophet Jones Ode Erue, who emerged as the incumbent state chairman during the party’s recently concluded congress in the state
Omo-Agege, who spoke during his consultation meeting with the National Executive and the Elders Council of the UPC in Warri, reiterated his resolve to vie for the governorship position and maintained that he was offering himself for the service of all Deltans
The verbal war that ensued thereafter threw the powers-that-be in the state into confusion, leading to an attempt on the life of the former Speaker of the state’s House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Victor Ochei, a multi-billionaire Engineer, who narrowly escaped being lynched during one of his ‘mosquito’ campaigns at Obomkpa in Aniocha North Local Government Area of the state
Delta state political structure is divided mainly between the Delta North Senatorial District, mainly Anioma (Ibos), the Central comprises of Urhobo and South which have three ethnic groups of Ijaws, Isokos and Itsekiris
The axis believed it suffered the worst hit in 2007 when former President Olusegun Obasanjo and former Governor of the state, Chief James Ibori, allegedly shortchanged them
Enebeli, who spoke with newsmen, said the people of Ndokwa should produce the state governor in 2015 when the incumbent, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, leaves power
Led by its National President, Chief Isaac Ozo Anwuzia, the group unequivocally undertook to join forces with discerning minds to insist that the party’s constitution be upheld in the build up to the governorship race in the state in 2015
No thanks to the unabating disputes between the Chairman of the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Peter Nwaoboshi, and the Secretary to the State Government, Comrade Ovouzerie Macaulay
The women, who met at the Unity Hall, Government House, Asaba, invoked the powers of God on all enemies of the state, especially those who will impose a successor on the state, home and abroad