The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign council for the September 21 governorship election, according to Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki, would give party candidate Asuerinme Ighodalo eighty percent of the vote.

At the campaign council’s inauguration in Benin, Obaseki stated that the party has the best candidate who would carry on where he left off.

He added that every party organ had been taken over and that the campaign council’s organizational framework was ingrained in each of the state’s 192 wards.

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“Today, we are here to inaugurate the campaign council that will lead PDP to victory in the September 21 governorship election.

“The campaign is going to be based on what we have achieved and the lives we have touched. The campaign will also be based on the future, not the past.

“We see the suffering the people are going through, so the campaign will be based on the hope PDP will give our citizens.

“Those fighting PDP have collected money from the other political parties and I want you all present here to join me in flushing them out. Let them stay out since they have collected money,” Obaseki said.

Governor Siminalayi Fubara, according to former senator Magnus Abe from Rivers State, cannot be the state’s leader.

Speaking on TVC’s Politics Night program, Abe asserted the claim regarding the cold war between Fubara and Federal Capital Territory Minister Nyesom Wike.

The former senator, who ran for governor in 2023 as a candidate for the Social Democratic Party, or SDP, claimed that leading the state involved much more than just running the government.

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Former Rivers State Senator, Magnus Abe, says Governor Siminalayi Fubara, cannot be called the state’s leader.

Abe made the claim while speaking on the cold war between Fubara and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, on TVC’s programme, Politics Night.

The ex-senator, who was a former governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, in the 2023 elections, said being the state leader was a great deal beyond governing the state.

He said, “Being a governor has made him the leader of the government of Rivers State. But when you say political leader, that is something that you have to work to earn.

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“To say Fubara is the political leader of Rivers State is a much broader context of leadership, and it takes time to build that kind of confidence, followership, support, and trust.

“Leadership is all about trust, and sometimes, navigating this difficult water helps bring you out as a leader when you begin to trust yourself and can rely on the direction you provide.”

Abe said it is Fubara’s responsibility to work towards that leadership.

“But he is the governor of Rivers State, and it is his responsibility to work towards that leadership. But to say he is the political leader of Rivers will be putting leadership into a broad context. And it takes time to get there. It takes bringing people together. You earn trust.

“As a governor, you have the opportunity to get there, but I don’t think it is conferred,” he added.

Abe stated that, although Aminu Kano was not a governor at the time, he was Kano’s political leader.

The senator had earlier said that the long-running political dispute between him and Wike was over.

Prior to the 2023 elections, Abe experienced a fall from grace with his principal and previous state governor, Rotimi Amaechi. Amaechi chose Tonye Cole, a businessman and co-owner of Sahara Energy located in Lagos, as the All Progressives Congress’ (APC) candidate for governor of the state.

However, Wike was content to have Fubara, the state’s accountant general and political godson, succeed him.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been advised by an important member of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Ambassador Olufemi Ajadi Oguntoyinbo, to approve N200,000 as the minimum salary for laborers.

Oguntoyinbo pointed out that workers cannot be supported on the current minimum wage.

This was said by the NNPP leader in a statement that was provided on Wednesday.

In addition to wishing workers a happy Workers Day this year, Oguntoyinbo urged state governors nationwide to prioritize the welfare of their workforces.

The head of the NNPP stressed that no country can achieve its intended level of development without a sufficient labor force.

Oguntoyinbo added that the enhanced lives of Nigerian workers were sacred and must remain a high concern of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration.

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“As a friend of the Labour, I share in your joy and wish you a successful celebration devoid of violence and rancour.

“I also use this occasion to reiterate my call to our President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to approve a minimum wage of N200,000 for our workforce.

“The reality of today has shown us that the current minimum wage cannot sustain the least workers in the country,” he stated.