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Dele Momodu Writes PDP, Slams Wike, Says No Need for Reconciliation Committee

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7 months ago

August 23, 2024

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By Eric Elezuo

Media enterpreneu and CEO, Ovation Media Group, Chief Dele Momodu, has written an open letter to his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), over the need to ‘wake up from its deep slumber’, even as he slammed a certain ‘prominent member’ of the party, who went on national television to lambast the party and its members.

Momodu took to his verified social media accounts to express his feelings, stressing that he did not any reason for a Reconciliation Committee as set up by the party while hailing the Disciplinary Committee.

He noted that anyone is at liberty to leave the party whenever he deems fit, and not to bring the roof down, making a veiled reference to Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mr. Nyesom Nwike, who has been at loggerheads with the party.

He reiterated that the PDP would have been a long forgotten party if not that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)has not been an attractive option since it grabbed power.

Read Momodu’s letter in full:

AN OPEN LETTER TO PDP…

BY DELE MOMODU

Yesterday, I watched with every sense of wonderment and amazement as a prominent member (?) of PDP belched fire and brimstone, live on Television, daring anyone to expel him from the political party that made him everything he is today, virtually from ground zero.

What was worse; he lambasted some unnamed members of PDP and even called them VAMPIRES!! Lord have mercy. About the same time, some of our members were elsewhere swearing-in members of the Disciplinary and Reconciliation Committees. While I could understand the need for a Disciplinary Committee, I saw no need for the so-called Reconciliation Committee.

Politics, like religion or marriage, is a voluntary act. It is your right to quit any political party if and when you’re tired and frustrated. And you may choose to rejoin at anytime. You won’t be the first or the last.

But it is the height of indiscipline to bring the roof down and create the impression that you’re the sole owner of one of Africa’s biggest political parties. What chicanery!! We almost lost one of our Governors last week because of the voluptuous ego of one man who loves to play God. Helping a man to power is no reason to treat anyone like a slave, or hold him permanently to ransom. Some people helped you too and today you’re no longer friends with them. If every leader before you behaved in this unruly manner, there would have been no State for you to inherit and misappropriate.

PDP needs to wake up from its deep slumber. PDP is extremely lucky that APC has not been an attractive option since it grabbed power. Otherwise, many politicians would have been lost to them. Time is running out. Our party and friends in other opposition parties should seize this moment to collaborate and rescue Nigeria from APC. Let us pray for our country as it speeds down the slope…

Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria…

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Explosion Rocks Trans Niger Pipeline in Rivers

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4 hours ago

March 18, 2025

Eric

An explosion has rocked a section of the Trans Niger Pipeline in Bodo Community in Gonna Local Government Area of Rivers State.

The explosion occurred late on Monday night near the Bodo-Bonny Road under construction

Thick black smoke was seen billowing into the atmosphere, with a raging fire spreading fast into the mangrove from a video that emerged on Tuesday morning.

The TNP is a federal transport line that supplies oil to the Bonny Export Terminal in Rivers State.

When contacted, the Police spokesperson in the state, Grace Iringe-Koko said she would find out and get back to our reporter, though she had yet to do so as of the time of filing this report.

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Sack Wike Now, Niger Delta Youths Tell Tinubu

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3 days ago

March 15, 2025

Eric

The youth chapter of Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has issued a 48-hour ultimatum to Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), Nyesom Wike, to retract his publicly disparaging remarks against the Ijaw nation and the leaders of this socio-political body.

According to the youths, it is embarrassing that Wike insulted the late former Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South Leader, Chief Edwin Clark, even in death without respecting him.

Addressing journalists on Saturday, the National Youth President of the Youth Wing, Doben Donyegha, who gave the ultimatum, said that it was annoying that Wike abused the leaders of the South-South geopolitical zone less than 24 hours after its delegation met with the President at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

Wike, during a media chat on Thursday, described PANDEF as “the worst organisation anybody can rely on”, while also calling the board of trustee members of the body “political merchants”.

Donyegha, who also urged President Bola Tinubu to immediately sack the minister from his cabinet, said that the youth wing no longer had confidence in him and that keeping Wike in his cabinet may affect the president’s re-election chances in the Niger Delta come 2027.

The President of the PANDEF youths also asked the Code of Conduct Bureau to investigate the minister, alleging land-grabbing activities in the FCT.

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Ahead Budget Presentation, Amaewhule-led Rivers Assembly Adjourns Sitting Indefinitely

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4 days ago

March 14, 2025

Eric

The Rivers State House of Assembly has adjourned its sittings indefinitely.

The decision to adjourn legislative duties indefinitely was reached during plenary, presided over by the Speaker, Martin Amaewhule, in Port Harcourt on Friday.

The development comes hours after the State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, wrote to the Speaker, informing him of his intention to visit the House to present the 2025 Appropriation Bill for consideration and approval.

The governor, in a letter dated March 13 and addressed to the Speaker, Martin Amaewhule, said he intends to present the budget on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, or any other day within March that the House may deem fit.

Fubara said his decision is in compliance with the Supreme Court judgment and in response to the lawmakers’ request for him to re-present the budget.

He recalled the bitter experience of visiting the Assembly Quarters with his entourage, where the lawmakers were temporarily sitting to present the budget, but he was denied access to the complex.