President of MOSOP, Mr. Goodluck Diigbo, said “Ateke Tom’s readiness to give peace a chance at a point when most observers of happenings in the Niger Delta felt that the crisis in the region will escalate, is a pointer to the fact that it could be resolved within us.

Speaking at the Faculty of Law Distinguished Jurists lecture of Lagos State University, Sagay said, “how do you expect a free and fair election from INEC, when Maurice Iwu is a board member of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in disguise who would do anything to see his party win elections?”

He argued that “these problems notwithstanding, it is however, obvious that the major challenge of popular participation in the management of state affairs by the people themselves, has become sacrosanct in the present democratic dispensation.

Governor Amaechi also ordered the demolition of shops around the schools. He visited Community Secondary school, Rumuapara, and State School, Orogbum at D/Line, where he directed the construction of another model primary school, based on the high population of pupils in Orogbum.

Vanguard learnt that the committee which was set up after an emergency meeting of the party on Wednesday will among other things, liaise with the family of the late Ekhabafe on how to accord the late PDP chieftain a befitting burial.