President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has felicitated prominent Itsekiri leader, Chief Ayiri Emami on his 50th birthday.

Tinubu in a statement by Bayo Onanuga,
Special Adviser to the President
(Information & Strategy) commended the politician, businessman, and philanthropist for his contribution to nation building.

President Tinubu specifically noted what he called the Itsekiri leader “valiant efforts in peacebuilding and in ensuring the safety and sustenance of critical oil and gas resources, as well as in fostering unity and stability in the Niger Delta region.”

He also recalled his contributions to the growth of the All Progressives Congress in Delta state and his loyalty to the President immediate family over the years, particularly “before and during the 2023 elections.”

The statement read in part: “President Bola Tinubu congratulates Chief Ayirimi Emami, a prominent Itsekiri leader, on his 50th birthday, April 26.

“Chief Emami is a politician, businessman, and philanthropist.

“President Tinubu commends the Itsekiri leader for his commitment to nation-building, epitomised by his valiant efforts in peacebuilding and in ensuring the safety and sustenance of critical oil and gas resources, as well as in fostering unity and stability in the Niger Delta region.

“I thank Chief Emami for his support over the years for me and my wife, First Lady Senator Oluremi Tinubu, a daughter of Itsekiriland, standing with us before and during the 2023 elections.”

“President Tinubu wishes Chief Emami good health and many more years of impactful service to the Itsekiri people and Nigeria.”

As gale of defection continues to rock the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, fresh plots to dump the party by 40 members of the House of Representatives and 2 sitting governors has been revealed by Hon. Ugochinyere Ikenga Imo.

Ugochinyere who is the official mouthpiece of the coalition lawmakers in the House of Representatives sound a warning on Friday during a live broadcast that if the National Working Committee, NWC does not take urgent steps to save the party by rectifying the removal of the party’s acting National Chairman, Umar Damagum and replace him with a candidate from the Northcentral and expel the Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike, from the party, the PDP would’ve begun in few weeks to come.

The lawmaker who represents Ideato federal constituency of Imo State, urged the PDP National Working Committee, NWC, to urgently take steps towards addressing the imminent danger.

He said the founding fathers of PDP will cry if they were to be alive to see the pitiable condition of the Peoples Democratic Party today.
He said: “If all the founding fathers of PDP were alive today, seeing what is happening, they would be crying over how the once biggest opposition in Africa has been turned into a political dog that barks without biting.

“It’s very important to start on this note that those days we are so scared that what will come is now here with us, as it has to do with your position and the PDP.

“We cried, we fought, we begged the PDP leaders to stand up and rescue the party. That you have an impostor in the person of Umar Damagun, and a treacherous political human being in the person of Samuel Anyanwu.

“PDP governors played with this, PDP stakeholders played with this, we said if the right thing is not done that this party will disintegrate before our own eyes.

“If Alex Ekwueme, Solomon Lar, Adamu Chiroma and all the founding fathers of this party if all of them are alive today, seeing what is happening, they would be crying at how the once biggest opposition in Africa has been turned into a political dog that barks without biting.

“The threat that these men portend, who warned of the consequences today. Look at the state of our party, our governors are jumping ship. Our lawmakers are jumping ship.

“Our senators are jumping ship. Our members are jumping ship in different parts of the country. But come to think about it. We blame outsiders or those who have decided to work with the APC, but what about ourselves, our governors?

“What did the governors do categorically to resolve this problem? When I was removed, the right thing to do was to convene an NEC meeting and find a replacement from North Central.

“When the time for the NEC comes our governors will say, “it is Salah Muslim people are traveling, let’s shift it. When they come back they say it is Easter. “When they come back again they say it is Christmas.

“When they come back again, they say it is a public holiday. Is this not shameful behaviour? For two years, the leaders of this party could not find a solution to the problem.

“For two good years, because they have decided to sabotage the same platform that gave them whatever they have today. For two good years, Damagun stayed with Anyanwu to carry out a very simple task, which was to decimate the party.

“I listened and I saw Damagun say our fate is in God’s hands. That is rubbish and an arrant nonsense statement. “Damagun, why are you bringing God into this? How can our fate be in God’s hands? Where was God when you allowed a NEC meeting for North Central to appoint an acting replacement?

“Where was God when you kept on shifting it? Where was God when you filed a matter in court against our own PDP in support of those lawmakers who defected from PDP to APC in Rivers state, which led us to the crisis of emergency today in Rivers?

“Where was God when you decided to give party structures to members of the APC? Where was God when you decided to keep on supporting the likes of Danobi and all those other treacherous elements that were hell-bent on destroying the party?

“You now talk about our fate being in God’s hands. But you permitted Wike to join the APC government while remaining in the PDP.

“You’re the one that is encouraging them both in depth and everywhere to the camp, and you open your mouth and say our fate is in God’s hands, and you’re still sitting in a position that you have no legal right to be sitting. You’re a very wicked man.”