Rivers: How Orbih fought for Wike against Amaechi
The Obuah-led PDP moved against politicians loyal to Amaechi, while the governor’s allies in the House of Assembly struck at the leadership of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, Wike’s political base.
And in the legal and political manoeuvring that produced that extraordinary reversal was an Edo politician named Dan Osi Orbih, whose evidence concerning a congress he had personally supervised helped tilt one of the defining political battles in modern Rivers history.
In 2013, Amaechi possessed almost everything normally required to control a ruling party in his state: the governorship, lawmakers, local government chairmen and an established political machinery.
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