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Delta 2023: Back Ijaw Gov Agenda, Activist Urges Ex-minister, Orubebe

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4 years ago

February 21, 2022

Ahead of the 2023 general election, an activist and youth advocate in Delta State, Eneware Emmanuel, has called on the former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godday Orubebe, to throw his weight behind the ongoing Ijaw Governorship Agenda in the State.

Eneware, popularly known as the ‘Pentiger’, in a letter of appeal to the former minister, copies of which were made available to journalists in Warri on Sunday said, “It is bad for Ijaw to betray Ijaw, looking at how marginalised and balkanised we are as a people in Nigeria.”

He begged Orubebe, who was a former governorship aspirant in 2015 to overlook how his kinsmen betrayed his aspiration, even at that time when an Ijaw citizen held sway as president of the country.

The activist said, “Let bygone be bygone and support the Ijaw Agenda. Our struggle and fight should be on the Nigeria Government and the various draconian laws that prevent us from controlling and enjoying our resources, and not Ijaw against Ijaw.

“It was very bad that your kinsmen and tribesmen never supported your ambition when we even have an Ijaw president that would have okayed it at once.

“But you are a leader par excellence, an elder statesman, a political icon, mentor, trailblazer worthy of emulation.

“I, therefore, appeal passionately to you as a patriotic and passionate Ijaw son to throw your weight in the Ijaw Governorship Agenda.

“Not for anyone else, but for the sake of God and the Ijaw people, who are the most brutalized, marginalised, balkanised, and neglected people in the Nigeria nation.”

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Soludo Visits Tinubu, Goes Into Closed Door Session With President

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14 hours ago

November 28, 2025

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Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Charles Soludo, on Thursday, paid a courtesy visit to the President, Bola Tinubu, GCFR at the State House.

Report by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Soludo, Mr Chris Aburime stated that President Tinubu received the Anambra State Governor with excitement, describing him as his long standing friend of over 22 years.

Aburime said, “The President used the occasion to further congratulate Governor Soludo on his landslide victory in the just concluded Anambra gubernatorial election.

“Recall that President Tinubu had earlier issued a congratulatory message to Governor Soludo immediately the governorship election was concluded.”

Governor Soludo was declared winner with 73% of the votes cast by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
Other details of the meeting were, however, not disclosed as the press Secretary told DAILY POST that both men went into a closed door meeting after the reception.

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2027: I Will Resign If Tinubu Loses In Edo – Governor Okpebholo

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15 hours ago

November 28, 2025

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Edo State Governor Monday Okpebholor has vowed that President Bola Tinubu will win the 2027 presidential election in Edo State.

Okpebholor in an interview captured in a viral video vowed to resign if the outcome of the 2027 election does not favour the president in Edo State.

According to him, the entire people in Edo State are ready to vote for the president, citing projects that his (Okpebholor) administration executed since the All Progressives Congress, APC took over the state.

He claimed that there is no opposition in the state, stressing that everyone is supporting the ruling party ahead of the 2027 elections.

He said, “There is no opposition here in Edo everybody is for Asiwaju in this state.

“Tinubu is more popular than me in Edo state. If he doesn’t win the presidential election in Edo in 2027, I will resign.”

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JUST IN: El-Rufai Formally Joins ADC

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1 day ago

November 27, 2025

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Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has formally joined the African Democratic Congress, ADC.

El-Rufai, a founding member of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, left the party earlier this year for the Social Democratic Party, SDP.

In his resignation letter from the SDP, dated November 26, 2025, the former governor stated that his focus is on contributing to the strengthening of a unified democratic platform that can offer a credible political alternative to the people of Nigeria.

“I wish to notify that I have resigned my membership of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, effective 26 November, 2025,” he said.