Okara is one of the 21 jostling for the PDP ticket ahead of the party’s September 3 primaries.
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Okara, who is the immediate past Secretary to the State Government, visited the former president in his Yenagoa residence on Wednesday night to formally inform him of his desire to run for office in the November 16 election.
The three cabinet members of the incumbent administration of Governor Seriake Dickson on Thursday obtained their expression of interest and nomination forms at the Peoples Democratic Party national headquarters in Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Maj.-Gen. Jamil Sarham, the General Officer Commanding 6 Division, Port-Harcourt, said the 2018 operation would not be different as officers and soldiers had been advised to abide by the rules.
The Secretary to the State Government, Kemela Okara, made the commitment while inaugurating the Financial Inclusion State Steering Committee at the conference room of the Central Bank of Nigeria.