[dropcap]P[/dropcap]rincipals and School Heads of public schools in Delta State have been charged to set up school based management
committees so as to tackle the various challenges that are being encountered in their schools.
The Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Chief Patrick Ukah, gave the charge when he monitored resumption of schools and also the level of compliance of the welcome back test for students in Delta Central and South Senatorial Districts of the state.
Chief Ukah said the essence of setting up the school based management committee is to bring together all stakeholders in the various communities where the schools are located to brainstorm on issues that affect the smooth running of the schools in their localities, and called on them to immediately set up the school based management committees in their respective schools.
At Government College, Ughelli, the commissioner commended the old students of the school for their contribmutions in developing the school, while reteirating the need for old students associations to become stakeholders in the schools they graduated from as this would go a long way in supporting the schools.m
The commissioner also visited Hussey College, Nana Model College, Delta Secondary School, Nana Primary School all in Warri and expressed his satisfaction to the response while stating that the welcome back test for the students would be sustained as it had eliminated the apathy of students towards resumption.
He commended the Principals and School Heads of the various schools visited and assured them of the ministry’s support at all times.
Chief Ukah equally inspected ongoing construction works at Emore Secondary School, Oleh, Otu-jeremi Model School, Otu-jeremi, and Army Day Secondary School, Effurun, where he called on the contractors handling the projects to speed up work so that the schools could be put to use in good time.
[dropcap]A[/dropcap] former House of Representative member and a Senator-elect, Dino Melaye, has accused the Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, of running the most corrupt government in the history of Nigeria.
In an interview with PREMIUM TIMES, Mr. Melaye, who was recently elected to represent the Kogi West senatorial district, said the government of Mr. Jonathan massively promoted corruption.
“Jonathan is the promoter of corruption,” Mr. Melaye said. “I am telling you that the Government of Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan is the most corrupt in Nigerian history but (who) we have as president-elect of this country today (Muhammadu Buhari); the man I see as the nemesis of corruption.”
Mr. Melaye said when he takes office as senator, he will campaign against corruption.
“Change!” he said. “I am an advocate of anti-corruption and for me if I enter office, I am going to do it more this time around.
“More importantly, now that we have a government that is going to have zero tolerance for corruption, we must as legislators carry out our functions from any form of sacrifice.”
He explained that his call for the reduction of allowances for legislators must come to fruition if they want to bring change.
“Either at the national assembly, we will be drastically checked,” he said. “Legislators need to check if they are on the side of the people or side of their pockets.
“I started it and I have advocated this even before the elections, and during the inductions training and I said there’s an urgent need to cut down government spending from all ramifications both legislature and judiciary, and more importantly, the allowance of the national assembly.
” They must be content because you have to live a life of sacrifice. You have to come with clean hands and show some form of sacrifice to Nigerians, because for us to stand on high morale pedestal to carry out transparent legislative activities, we must show that we are the masses of this country and demonstrate change. We must act the change we preach and by the way, to start we legislators must cut down our own pay reasonably.
“If we supervise the MDAs, N3billion will not be budgeted for the travels of Mr. President in a year. Where is the president going? Is he the supervisor of the world? And at the end of the year there’s no money returned to the treasury. So these are the types of leakages that I expect legislators to come out and ameliorate this time and fight and check corruption so you cannot check it without making a sacrifice.
“We either serve or perish in destructive selfishness. Some of us have resolved to be the people and make democracy, government of the people, by the people and for the people, and not to practice as it is right now. In this government, democracy is greediocracy; government of the greedy, by the greedy and for the greedy.”
[dropcap]M[/dropcap]ore facts have emerged why the gridlock at the Oshodi –Apapa express Ways persist despite all the efforts by past and present Administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to solve the problem.
This is because of the gross inefficiency of the terminal Operators , particular, APM terminal, one of the Concessionaires at the Premier port, Apapa, and the inability of the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, Authorities to enforce the Overtime Cargo directive handed down to them by the Presidential Task Force on the Apapa gridlock. In addition to the refusal of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA to provide the team with daily report of traffic Advisories, routes and movement of trucks in and out of the port and the unruly behaviour of the drivers of the Association of Truck Owners who are not ready to obey traffic laws believing that money is everything.
That much was said by Comrade Kayode Opeifa, Vice Chairman, of the Team. Note that the presidential Team which was set up by the Katsina born Nigerian President with a mandate to clear the gridlock along the Oshodi – Apapa road. Note that the Task which was set up by the Katsina state born Nigerian President has Yemi Osibajo, the Vice President as the Chairman, for proper Coordination from his office.
Opeifa, who spoke as a guest of the Maritime Reporters Association of Nigeria, at the International Maritime International Press Centre, Apapa, disclosed that if all the all the terminal operators could do what is expected of them to do at their respective terminals, there would be no basis for the Apapa gridlock, which had defiled all known solutions over the years. He wants the terminal Operators to take only the number of Containers their terminals could handle at a go based on their Capacity instead of throwing their terminals open for importers because of the terminal fees an levies collected on such Containers including the payment of demurrage .
According to him, the terminal operators apply for Container allocation from NPA, more than their available space could handle. Taken for instance, APM terminal, the Value News could handle 600 Containers but take 1000 Container at a go. There was no basis for the additional 400 Containers requested from NPA, to discharged from the port both for greed. APM terminal Authorities may not be looking at the implication on the Apapa road but the terminal levies , fees and demmurage that would accrue to the terminal over time.
Kayode Opeifa: Lambasts Terminal Operators And Other Agencies Of Causing Apapa Gridlock
This may have necessitated the recommendation of the Team to Hameed Ali, a retired Army Colonel and Comptroller General, NCS, on the need to auction all the Containers found at any of the terminals based on the government Overtime cargo policy. The terminal operators may have been a soft landing as they were directed by the Osibajo led Team to compile and submit the list of the overtime cargoes in their respective terminals to the NCS for necessary action.
The value News findings shows that since ‘’since the directive was given, only Port Multi-services Terminal Limited, PTML, has complied with the directive as APMT and others were said to have refused to do so. we learnt that the Team has sent a reminder letter to the recalcitrant terminals to comply with the directive by the list of the overtime cargoes in their respective terminals which must be submitted to the NCS, but no luck.
Many believe that the Customs Authorities not pushed the terminal Operators hard enough to do what is expected of them to make their job easy because of their close working relationship and facilitating their impressive yearly revenue collections at the seaports across the country.
Industry Stakeholders who spoke to newsmen disclosed that the situation on the oshodi-Apapa Express Ways was made worse because of the empty trucks which were been returned back to the terminals because Hajia Hadiza Bala Usman led NPA, had not provided the needed transit park for such Containers as obtained in other Maritime nations. The Authority may have bowed to pressure to provide a transit park at Apapa but that was how far it could go.
Insiders informed us that the empty Containers were supposed to go to the Authority holding bays , at the ports.our findings shows the holding bays exists but it has been taken over by empty Containers which ships coming to discharge Containerised cargoes at the port had failed to take back to their operational base in China, India, Turkey and other Nigerian trading partners across the globe.
This may have informed the reason why Maritime analysts see Nigeria as a dumping ground for empty Containers. There are indications that many of the Containers life span may have expired which had made them unattractive to most of the shipping Companies to take back to their Operational base in Asia, Europe and North America.
Opeifa, the Presidential Task Force Vice Chairman on the Apa gridlock said NPA , had made traffic situation at Apapa more worrisome because of its refusal to assist the Team with a weekly publication of the traffic advisories in and out of the ports. He noted that the agency ought to have been making such publications to assist the Team enforce the traffic law at Apapa.
The biggest Culprits, according to Peifa, were the AMATO drivers. Investigation by the Magazine shows that the drivers have penetrated the ranks of the Presidential Task Force that they could do anything to put their truck on the road even when it is not their turn to do so, thus causing the quoatic traffic situation at Apapa.
Opeifa may have alluded to this when he said the leadership of the Association were frustrating their effort to do their work. He described Remi Ogungbemi, Chairman of the Association as Head of the cabal because of the racketeering and illegal collections from the gridlock. His major worry was that Ogungbemi has no single truck on the road yet he has total control over the truck owners that could do anything because of the tolls his boys are collecting from the truck drivers to cause traffic gridlock.
The AMATO Chairman, would not take it. As a guest of MARAN, sometimes ago he had admitted that the gridlock at the Apapa road were caused by his members who tried to bribe their way to put their trucks on the rad with the the Collaboration of the Task Force. But Opeifa, has described the Ogungbemi allegation as a chep blackmail. He has vowed that nothing would stop the Team from restoring sanity on the Apapa road. He is right. A visitor to Apapa port in the recent time would be surprised that most of the trucks that park illegally on the road have been cleared leading to free vehicular movement. But the government has to hasten efforts in the rehabilitating road to sustain the achievement that had been recorded by the Team over the last few months.
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council (JNPSNC) and the Representatives of the Federal Government have again failed to reach an agreement over relativity and consequential adjustment for the implementation of the new minimum wage.
Mr Alade Lawal, JNPSNC General Secretary, Trade Union Side, told newsmen that the organised labour will decide on a next line of action towards the issue of the minimum wage, saying in due time, Nigerians would be informed.
“The meeting is deadlocked, we found out that the Federal Government officials are not serious about it at all, we are suspecting fowl play or a hidden agenda somewhere.
“We have decided to report the development to our principals, including the Labour unions, Nigerians will be adequately briefed of our next line of action very shortly.”
Chairman of the Labour team, Mr Simon Anchaver, said labour negotiating team has also resolved to write to the Nigeria Labour congress and the trade union congress, TUC on their advise to consider an industrial action.
He said government’s foot dragging is an invitation for industrial action, since workers are already engulfed in fear and agitations whether their accumulated arrears will be paid when talks are finally concluded.
NAN reports that the Head of Service, Winifred Oyo-Ita, chaired the meeting, and the acting Chairman, National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, as the Secretary of the negotiating council.
NAN recalls that the new minimum wage bill was signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari in April.
However, deliberations continued as the issue of relativity/consequential adjustment of salaries still persisted.
The Federal Government had on May 14 inaugurated the relativity/Consequential Adjustment Committee which in turn set up a Technical Sub-Committee to work out the template for the adjustment of salaries of Public Service Employees.
In a meeting between the government and labour last month (August), government proposed a 10 per cent increment for level seven to 14 and a 5.5 per cent increment for level 15 to 17.
Egbule, immediate past Chairman, National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, had attributed the delay in the implementation of the “consequential adjustment” of the N30,000 new minimum wage to the unrealistic demands of labour unions.
Egbule explained that the current demand of the labour unions would raise the total wage bill too high and that was why government could not accept their proposed salary adjustments.
But labour turned down government’s offer, proposing 30 per cent increase for levels seven to 14 and 25 per cent for levels 15 to 17.
The JNPSNC declined the offer, saying that since the increase in wage from N18, 000 to N30, 000 was 66 per cent, they wanted 66 per cent increment across board for all workers.
[dropcap]D[/dropcap]ELTA State , yesterday, emerged winner of the 5th National Youth Games, “Ilorin 2019” at University of Illorin Sports Complex, Illorin, Kwara State with amazing records across most of the events even before the conclusion of the events.
Team Delta as at 11:15am yesterday, had recorded 39 gold, 30 silver and 29 bronze medals totaling 96 medals in the national sports championship followed by Lagos State which secured 21 gold,35 silver and 13 bronze medals, while Bayelsa State garnered 17 gold, five silver and 19 bronze medals topick the third position With the wide margin recorded in the gold medals between Delta and the other states participating in the competition, Delta has become too domineering in the Nigeria sports world and would not relinquish the position in a haste.
Delta State has won the Games since its inception and has become very assertive that it will be difficult to dethrone a reigning General who has fortified his defence with the best of arms and ammunition. Being the only state with active stadia across virtually the entire Local Government Area, it becomes more obvious why they will continue to dominate.
Lagos counted on Delta’s exploit in swimming events and centered its efforts this year on the game which actually paid off, as they got five gold medals, while Delta could only win six gold medals as against their initial record of 12 gold medals but the defending champion (Delta) has diversified their areas of concentration and made more gold medals from other events that were ordinarily not expected.
Added to the good result recorded by the Team Delta is the performance of the ball games where they were able to increase their gold tally.
Deltans are rejoicing over the victory just as they hope to continue the exploit in the sports world of the country as long as they continue to sustain the training and preparation of athletes and officials.
Mr. Charles Aniagwu, Commissioner for Information, Delta State (l) & Comr. Jude Obiemenyego, Chairman, Association of Community Newspaper Publishers of Nigeria (ACNPN).
[dropcap]D[/dropcap]ELTA State Commissioner for Information, Hon Charles Aniagwu on Monday enjoined indigenous media Publishers in the state to resist the urge to pander towards disintegration but to rather resolve their differences amicably through appropriate channels.He has vowed to work with the Association of Community Newspaper Publishers of Nigeria,(ACNPN) Delta State Chapter, adding that the State Government recognises the body as the only umbrella body for publishers in the state.
The Commissioner charged aggrieved members to refer to the constitution governing the association and resolve their differences amicably or express their preferences through the ballot held at periodic intervals, rather than attempting to pull down the house just because they were not in power.
“Whether you like it or not, one body pays you more. What I think you need to do is to activate your law and effect your yearnings and aspirations if you are not satisfied with the present leadership of your association. No organized society just breaks up because one person is angry. He said: “I am not here to score the leaders of the association if they have done well or not since they assumed office. My take is that you all elected comrade Jude Obiemenyengo as your Chairman and anyone aggrieved should be patient to vote him out when his tenure elapses .
“I met with ACNPN and another different group of publishers separately some days back and decided to call every publisher here today to see if we can have one house.”He however called on all publishers in the state to unite and become a formidable voice under one platform, ACNPN, adding that the government will only deal with ACNPN henceforth as the only recognised umbrella for community newspaper publishers in the state.
Hon Charles Aniagwu warn the rebel group not bring in sentiments, resort to your laws otherwise what you want to do is to act without making use of your laws and I disagree.I have identified the fact that some of you may be angry and you are entitled to feel so but ventilating your grievances, resort to your laws and not your whims and caprices” he said.
Meanwhile, in a press release, ACNPN commended the commissioner for meddling in the affairs of the association in order to foster peace and promote grassroots journalism in the state.
The press statement signed by Jude Obiemenyego, Chairman and Mercy Akuba, Secretary, read: “The leaders of Community Newspaper Publishers of Nigeria use this medium to commend the Commissioner for Information, Mr. Charles Aniagwu, for meddling in the crisis that hitherto rocked the association in Delta State.
“We are glad that the truth has come to the open,as the Honourable Commissioner has on behalf of the Delta State Government endorsed and recognised the association as the only umbrella body for publishers in the state led by Comrade Jude Obiemenyego.”
Furthermore, the association passed a vote of confidence on the DELTA State Commissioner for Information,Hon Charles Aniagwu,as they promised that ACNPN under the leadership of Comrade Jude Obiemenyego will always support the state government in pushing her‘Stronger Delta’ agenda .
[dropcap]O[/dropcap]bi Ifechukwude Chukuka Okonjo is the new monarch of Ogwashi-Uku Kingdom in Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State. He ascended the ancestral throne following the passage of his father, His Royal Majesty, Obi (Professor) Chukuka Okonjo who joined his ancestors at the age of 91.
The passage of Obi Chukuka Okonjo which had been kept in silence for some weeks due to traditional rites, was on Friday, September 13, 2019 made public by her daughter, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on her verified twitter handle @NOIweala.
The two-time Minister of Finance wrote, “It is with thanks to Almighty God that I announce two impactful events: the Ascension to the throne of the Ogwashi-Uku Kingdom of my brother, Obi Ifechukwude Chukuka Okonjo, upon the passing away of my father Obi (Professor) Chukuka Okonjo at the age of 91.”
The late traditional ruler who died in Lagos after he arrived from a trip to the United States of America and Ghana, was a professor of Mathematics before he ascended the throne in 2007. A position which was disputed by another family who claimed that they had the right to succeed to the position of Obi of Ogwashi-Uku.
The new monarch, Obi Ifechukwude Chukuka Okonjo, is a financial management expert and CEO of Chevy Chase Consulting. He had worked for Halliburton Nigeria and attended Federal Government College, Enugu.
He obtained his A’ levels as an external student of the University of London before proceeding to United States of America where he bagged two degrees in Economics and History from University of Maryland, College Park and an MBA from University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is pursuing a doctorate in Business Administration from University of Paris, in France.
His ascension to the throne followed a process of endorsement and presentation by the Umu Obi Obahai Royal Family of Ogwashi-Uku and the traditional chalking and crowning ceremonies conducted by the Ikelike and Agidiehi Kingmakers in Ogwashi Uku.
[dropcap]F[/dropcap]ollowing agitations from the Ijaw people of Delta South Senatorial district of Delta State to produce governor come 2023, former Gov. James Ibori has cautioned against distractions in the State, just as he disclosed that Urhobo nation would produce the next governor come 2023.
Chief Ibori disclosed this at the weekend when he played host to Delta Central PDP stakeholders in his Oghara country home, explained that he called the meeting to officially thanked the Party from the district for voting enmass for PDP, especially for Okowa reelection noted that if for anything the party need to be grateful for winning the governorship.
” The purpose of the meeting is for me to formally thank you all for listening to me and voted for our Governor and all PDP candidates in the district”
The former governor solicited support for Okowa to enable him succeed in his second term administration, cautioned against heating up the polity on whom to become governor come 2023, stressed that 2023 is still far but reaffirmed that during Okowa reelection campaign, the party made a promise with the Delta Central PDP stakeholders, traditional institutions that Okowa would handover to Urhobo and hI’m (Ibori) and other party leadership cannot afford to breach the accord reached with the Urhobo people.
“During our campaign for our governor we begged our Urhobo brothers and sisters to wait for 2023 and give their votes to our governor”
“They have done their part, it’s our turn to reciprocate by allowing them to produce the next governor”
He expressed optimism that the Anioma people would queue behind the Urhobos come 2023 allays fear that PDP in the State is still much ready for the task ahead.
“After supporting our Anioma brothers I am very sure they will us come 2023”
At the meeting, Chief Ighoyota Amori, Prof. Sam Oyovwaire, Chief John Oguma among others who spoke during the meeting expressed Urhobo readiness to produce the next governor in the State.
The Delta Central PDP thanked Ibori for his leadership capacity in the State. Chief Amori particularly said that with crops of party faithful that attended the meeting coupled with the presence of Ibori has shown that Urhobo are out for serious business geared towards unity of purpose.
He further posited that Urhobo nation have eminent qualified people to man the governorship seat come 2023, appealed to party to shun politics of divisiveness.
[dropcap]P[/dropcap]olicemen attached to the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences have arrested 28 suspected miscreants and 15 illegal street traders at various locations around Afrika Shrine, Alausa, Ikeja.
Chairman of the taskforce, Olayinka Egbeyemi, disclosed this in a statement by the agency’s head of public affairs, Adebayo Taofiq, on Sunday.
Mr Egbeyemi said the raid was due to the nefarious acts within the vicinity of the Afrika Shrine which presented negative image to tourists and residents of Lagos.
“Operatives of the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Unit, over the weekend, raided all streets within Central Business District including surroundings of the ‘African Shrine’, Alausa, Ikeja.
“The enforcement operations became imperative following complaints from members of the public about the criminal activities of miscreants and environmental nuisance of illegal street traders around the Shrine,” he said.
According to the chairman, the night operation was carried out around spots where drugs like Tramadol, Codeine, Skunk, marijuana, Illegal liquor and assorted food are sold.
“These consumable and non-consumable items are freely sold on the streets in defiance of security agencies and government authority,” he said.
Egbeyemi maintained that the enforcement operations would be a continuous exercise in line with the vision of the present administration to rid the state of street urchins and criminals.
“The Lagos State Government has vowed to sustain the security onslaught on all areas identified as criminal hideouts and hard drug outlets across the state, especially within the metropolis,” he said.
One of those arrested, Tunde Babalola, who was allegedly caught with a bag of substance suspected to be Indian hemp, was said to have confessed he had been selling hard drugs for eight years.
Mr Babalola reportedly said he makes an average profit between N60,000 and N100,000 weekly from customers around Obalende, Akala, Mushin, Bariga and Ikeja.
Another trader, Abike Adeyemi, said that she pays N1,900 every week to a representative of Ikeja Local Government from the sale of addictive substances around the shrine.
Egbeyemi said that the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Zubairu Muazu, has directed that all those arrested be immediately prosecuted.
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here is trouble in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party following former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s loss at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal on Wednesday.
The development, it was gathered, has made some members of Board of Trustees of the PDP to travel to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates on Saturday (today) to engage in what one of our correspondents gathered was tagged ‘‘strategic consultation’’ with Atiku.
The meeting, it was learnt, was necessitated as a result of wrangling among senior members of the party.
Investigations also showed that the allegation by the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, that some governors of the party were visiting President Muhammadu Buhari at night was also causing ripples among its senior members.
Wike had also alleged that members of the committee set up by the BoT to investigate the emergence of Ndudi Elumelu as the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives were corrupt.
While the PDP and Atiku rejected the tribunal’s judgment and had signified their intention to approach the Supreme Court, Wike had congratulated Buhari.
Already, it was learnt that some members of the party had been strategising on how to defect from the PDP to the ruling All Progressives Congress.
Atiku is said to have been residing in the UAE for some time now.
The Chairman, PDP BoT, Senator Walid Jibrin, confirmed the trip to one of our correspondents in a telephone interview.
Walid said, “Yes. The PDP BoT members will travel on Saturday to Dubai to see our presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar as part of our strategic consultation. The consultation is going to be nation-wide. He is the first person we will meet for the consultation.”
It could not be confirmed how many members of the PDP BoT were on the trip. It was, however, confirmed that Walid and the Secretary of the board, Senator Adolphus Wabara, made the trip.
According to him, the BoT will meet on Thursday to deliberate and decide on Ayu’s committee report.
The committee was set up by the BoT to investigate the emergence of Elumelu as the Minority Leader in the House of Representatives.
Wike accused the Iyorcha Ayu committee of being corrupt when a member of the committee, Austin Okpara visited him to inform him that he had resigned his membership. Walid said he did not know why Austin Opara left the committee.
He said, “We have three other committees and the outcome of the Ayu committee will not be in isolation of other committees like the Tom Ikimi Disciplinary Committee and the Senator Adolphus Wabara committee. It is true that the committee has submitted its report but the BoT will meet on Thursday next week to discuss and make a decision on the recommendations.
“I don’t know why he left. It was when the report of the committee was submitted that I noticed that he did not sign and his column for signature was not signed.
‘‘I am not a member of the committee. Since the inauguration of the committee, I have not spoken to them, I have not visited or interfered with their work or given any input in the course of their work.
“He did not write or tell me why he left or did not sign after the submission of their work. As far as I’m concerned, I will leave that for discussion next Thursday when the BoT will meet.”
It was also learnt that the mass defection is said to have further been fuelled by the outcome of the party’s governorship primaries in both Bayelsa and Kogi states.
The outcome of the primaries had been rejected by some aspirants, who accused the party of being biased.
For example, a former Presidential Adviser on Niger Delta Affairs, Mr Timi Alaibe, is believed to be planning to ditch the PDP following the outcome of the Bayelsa State governorship primary.
Senator Douye Diri, an ally of the outgoing governor of the state, Seriake Dickson, was declared the winner of the primary.
Diri, who represents Bayelsa Central at the National Assembly, defeated 19 other aspirants to emerge as the PDP candidate for the November 16 governorship election in the state.
He polled a total of 561 votes to win the governorship ticket while Alaibe came second with 365 votes. Both Diri and Alaibe are from the same Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area.
Alaibe had complained about the number of delegates accredited for the primary, saying the newly-elected local government chairmen in the state were not expected to be allowed to vote.
He based his complaint on the non-compliance with the party’s constitution which gives a specific number of months occupiers of such offices are to spend before they could qualify as delegates.
‘‘But in total disregard for norms and laid down procedure, the party neglected that and allowed the impunity to reign. We will know how far that can take them,’’ a source close to the aspirant told one of our correspondents.
It was learnt that Alaibe was under pressure to dump the PDP and pick the ticket of another political party.
A loyalist of Alaibe, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said he and others were waiting for the former presidential aide to take a decision on what to do.
‘‘We are waiting for him to return. Though his name is not yet with the Independent National Electoral Commission, there is a window for substitution of names.
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[dropcap]P[/dropcap]rincipals and School Heads of public schools in Delta State have been charged to set up school based management
[dropcap]O[/dropcap]bi Ifechukwude Chukuka Okonjo is the new monarch of Ogwashi-Uku Kingdom in Aniocha South Local Government Area of 
[dropcap]F[/dropcap]ollowing agitations from the Ijaw people of Delta South Senatorial district of Delta State to produce governor come 2023, former Gov. James Ibori has cautioned against distractions in the State, just as he disclosed that Urhobo nation would produce the next governor come 2023.
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here is trouble in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party following former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s loss at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal on Wednesday.
