Oshiomhole
The five South- South governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday met to strategise on the best possible way to unseat the All Progressives Congress (APC) from Edo State in this year’s election.
The governors, including the Bayelsa State Governor, Serieke Dickson, his Rivers State counterpart, Nysom Wike, Akwa-Ibom State, Emmanuel Udom, Cross River State, Ben Ayade and the host Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, at the maiden meeting, kept their tactics to recapture Edo State in abeyance in order for their opponent not to capitalise on it.
They said adequate strategies have been mapped out to reposition the party in Edo State. Besides, the governors, who converged at the Government House, Asaba, Delta State, said they would engage President Muhammadu Buhari, in a closed-door meeting in a few days, on the dastard activities of Fulani herdsmen across their geo-political zone.
Briefing journalists on the outcome of the parley, Governor Okowa, who said “a wide range of issues concerning Nigeria as a nation were discussed as a party,” said his colleagues condemned in strong terms the recent attack on NNPC-Chevron facilities.
“The Chevron gas pipeline vandalisation is very unfortunate, we condemn it as a party and in Delta, we have already taken it up,” the governor said. According to Okowa, “First is the issue of security and we decided that there will be the need for us in the South-South to have a meeting with Mr. President.
Those are issues we are not going to let out until we see the President. “We also discussed issues bothering on the PDP in Edo State, one of our sister states.”