He is the protégé of outgoing Delta Governor James Ibori who has been under investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...
In Delta State Governor James Ibori has picked his Itsekiri cousin and State Secretary Emmanuel Uduaghan as the PDP's candidate for governor...
Governors under EFCC scrutiny include: James Ibori (Delta); Lucky Igbinedion (Edo); Ayo Fayose (Ekiti); Bonnie Haruna (Adamawa); Gbenga Daniel (Ogun); Olagunsoye Oyinlola (Osun); Adamu Aleiro (Kebbi); Attahiru Bafarawa (Sokoto); Saminu Ibrahim Turaki (Jigawa); Ahmad Makarfi (Kaduna); Goodluck Jonathan (Bayelsa); Chimaraoke Nnamani (Enugu); Achike Udenwa (Imo); Sam Egwu (Ebonyi); and Bola Tinubu (Lagos)...
Delta: James Ibori (PDP) under EFCC investigation...
The political allegiances of its state governors range from full support for President Obasanjo from Rivers State's Peter Odili through qualified support from Cross Rivers' David Duke to long-standing animosity (with ambiguity) from Delta State's James Ibori...
Militant sources say that initial contact was made then broken off after the State Security Service arrested three prominent Ijaw activists in Delta State including Boro Opudu a well known Delta thug occasionally employed as an armed escort by Delta Governor James Ibori and IYC mouthpiece Peter Ajube...
Vol 47 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Also defying Obasanjo is James Ibori Delta State Governor and one-time acolyte of the military leader Gen...
Delta State Governor James Ibori is also close to Oando but no friend of Obasanjo's faction of the PDP...
Federalists Diepreye Alamieyeseigha: Bayelsa State Governor; controls Nigeria's third largest federal allocation; self-appointed leader of Ijaw federalists; like fellow governors (James Ibori Delta and Peter Odili Rivers) he plays in his speeches on the 'struggle' and 'battle' for 'resource control'...
The recent firing for embezzlement of Education Minister Fabian Osuji (see Credibility on corruption article) feeds the fears of Delta State Governor James Ibori whose main achievement since military rule ended in 1999 has been the accumulation of personal wealth...
