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Barely three weeks before next month’s presidential elections, another bigwig of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Bayelsa State, Senator Felix Oboro, has left the ruling party for the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC. According to Thisday newspaper report online, Sen. Oboro, a member of Jonathan’s Presidential Campaign Committee in Bayelsa, decamped to the APC on Friday. It was disclosed that the Senator, who was Nigeria’s former ambassador to Venezuela, was conspicuously absent during the swearing in of members of the presidential campaign committee in Bayelsa by Governor Seriake Dickson. It was gathered that Sen. Oboro was welcomed to the APC by the leader of the party in Bayelsa, Chief Timipre Sylva. Speaking at the event, Sylva stated that with political leaders leaving the PDP in droves that the ruling party was gradually heading for collapse. He also added that besides insecurity that was pervading the country, the level of unemployment and poverty was inc...

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday held a closed door meeting with the Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse II and the National President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor in Warri, Delta State. Sources at the closed door meeting told Saturday Vanguard that the visit was for the President to gain Itsekiri leaders’ confidence and support on next month’s elections and appeal for calm over ethnic conflict generated by the stalemated Export Processing Zone, EPZ, sited in Ogidigben, Warri South West Area of the state. The visit is coming days after the Itsekiri Leaders of Thought, ILT, vowed to vote against him if he fails to do the groundbreaking the $16 billion EPZ which the President reneged on last year following protest by Ijaws of Gbaramatu Kingdom. The President on arrival had first visited Pastor Oritsejafor at his GRA, Warri residence before leaving for the Olu’s Palace in company of the CAN President and Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan. A particip...