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September 26, 2022

2023: Marginalised members disrupt Warri South PDP caucus meeting

A clear indication that members of ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Warri South Council area of Delta state may be going into next year’s general elections a divided house has emerged, following protest by some aggrieved members who stormed the venue of a caucus stakeholders meeting, forcing it to a halt.

Investigations revealed that PDP Warri South Council Chairman, Mr. Johnson Agbeyigbe, had summoned a caucus stateholders meeting at a popular hotel in Warri based on the directive from the Party state Chairman, Bar Kingsley Esiso, to all Local Government Chairmen to commenced the process of strategic planning campaign ahead of 2023 polls.

The meeting which comprises of LGA party Chairmen, Council Chairmen, House of Assembly members, Candidates, Commissioners, Special Advisers and seven community youth leaders that cut across the major ethnic group in the araa, had barely sat to commence deliberations when the aggrieved invaders took over the entire place.

Coordinator of the aggrieved PDP members, Bar. Presley Okojie, who presented their case under the auspices of ‘Warri South Political Caucus’, faulted the composition of those invited to attend, describing the meeting as charades with no good intent to addressing the disunity that had plagued the party aftermath its Primaries.

He maintained that the Party leadership had displayed show of shame by summoning such a meeting without first making efforts to bring some of the aggrieved members at various ward levels together, insisting that the idea to hold the meeting when the needed peace had not been brokered, demonstrates the insensitivity of those at the helms of affairs.