Emma Amaize’s Niger-Delta Blog

ONE of Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan’s political tacticians in Warri and Chairman of the Delta Waterways Security Committee, DWSC, Warri, Chief Ayirimi Emami, has defected from the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

SHELL Nigeria Exploration and Production Company, SNEPCo, has reportedly shut down some of its flow stations in Southern Ijaw and Ekeremor Local Government Areas of Bayelsa state because of anxiety that ex-militants may attack the facilities following the outcome of the presidential election.

THE Centre for the Vulnerable and Underprivileged, CENTREP, Warri, Delta State, has differed with the Niger-Delta People Salvation Front/Niger Delta People Volunteer Force, NDPSF/NDPVF, led by Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, on their claim that the victory of President-elect, Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd) in the presidential election was a conspiracy by the North and South West against the Niger-Delta, South East and Middle Belt geo-political Regions.

FINALLY, the groundbreaking of the $16 billion Gas Revolution Industrial City, Ogidigben, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, by President Goodluck Jonathan, has been scheduled for March 16.
 

FORMER Commander of the defunct Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, Victor Ebikabowei Ben, alias General Boyloaf and head of the Odua People’s Congress, OPC, Gani Adams, held a secret meeting, Wednesday, in Lagos.

GOVERNOR Emmanuel Uduaghan, of Delta State, Wednesday, brokered a truce between Ijaw and Itsekiri nationalities over the $16 b Delta Gas City project.