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The South-South Screening Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cleared 12 governorship aspirants gunning for Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s job in 2023 governorship election in Delta State.
This is just as frontline runners, Senator James Manager, David Edevbie, Kingsley Otuaro, Sheriff Oborevwori scale through.
All 12 governorship aspirants who presented themselves for the screening committee headed by Bayelsa State governor, Douye Diri, were cleared to participate in next month’s primaries of the PDP in Delta.
Among those cleared by the PDP Screening Committee is a former Minister of State for Education, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi; Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Chief Sheriff Oborevwori; former Principal Secretary to Late President Musa Yar’Adua and former Chief of Staff, Olorogun David Edevbie; Senator James Manager, representing Delta South and Deputy Governor of Delta State, Deacon Kingsley Otuaro.
Others are former Delta State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Peter Adogbejire Mrakpor (SAN); former commissioner for Housing, Olorogun Fred Majemite; Managing Director of Wellmann Group, Deacon Chris Iyovwaye; former Sapele Council Chairman, Omizu Ejaife Odebala, Uvwie-born politician, Sir Onajefe-Gift Bright Edejewhro; Mr. Lucky Ohworode Idike and Chief Abel Oghenevo Esievo.