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A fresh light has been cast on the dark intrigues and succession crisis that trailed the choice of Mr.Celestine Omehia as the PDP governorship candidate in Rivers State in the 2007 election to take over from Dr. Peter Odili.
Omehia went on to win the election only for the Supreme Court to upturn his emergence, and declared Mr. Rotimi Amaechi as the rightful candidate of the party and winner of the election.
In a new autobiography, ‘Conscience and History – My Story’, Dr. Odili said he had already settled for Mr. Amaechi to succeed him until loyalists of the then President Olusegun Obasanjo raised hell and insisted that he must replace Amaechi.
He bowed to the pressure leading to the emergence of Omehia.
The development soon caused a break down in the years of friendship between him and Amaechi who had served as the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly for the eight years of Odili‘s tenure as governor.
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Source: Urhobo Today
Omehia went on to win the election only for the Supreme Court to upturn his emergence, and declared Mr. Rotimi Amaechi as the rightful candidate of the party and winner of the election.
In a new autobiography, ‘Conscience and History – My Story’, Dr. Odili said he had already settled for Mr. Amaechi to succeed him until loyalists of the then President Olusegun Obasanjo raised hell and insisted that he must replace Amaechi.
He bowed to the pressure leading to the emergence of Omehia.
The development soon caused a break down in the years of friendship between him and Amaechi who had served as the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly for the eight years of Odili‘s tenure as governor.
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Source: Urhobo Today
