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Delta Politicians Urge FG to Negotiate Ibori’s Release from London Jail

The kinsmen of Ex- Delta State governor, Chief James Ibori, key political stakeholders in Delta State have addressed the Federal Government asking to facilitate freeing and subsequent returning of James Ibori to Nigeria, who has already spent more than 1 year in a British prison, after being convicted by London court.

Ibori's supporters described him as an epitome of infrastructural and human capital development in the state.

Mr. Ayirimi Emami, the activist from Niger Delta and Warri chief described Ibori's travail as political, adding that the ex-governor developed the youths, roads and other infrastructure to better the lots of Deltans. The declaration has been made in Oghara, the country home of Chief Ibori, shortly after a novelty football match organised to celebrate the former governor's 55th birthday,

The Chairman of Itsekiri Regional Development Committee, IRDC, Chief Emami said: "Despite being in prison, if Ibori happens to contest election now, he will win because he is a man of the people."

Mr. Ben Igbakpa, Delta State Commissioner for Transport and an aide to Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, Faith Majemite, a member on the board of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Mr. Henry Ofa and other top political office holders in Delta State, who also bared their minds described the huge turn-out of people at the novelty football match played at the Oghara township stadium between Ibori United of Oghara and Ibori United of Warri as a testament of the ex governor's popularity and developmental strides while he was in the saddle as Delta State chief executive.

An Oghara indigene, Simon Otobo opined that the Urhobo, who prayed for Ibori's arrest were now regretting doing so because of the political gulf his absence was causing the Urhobo nation and pleaded for leniency on the part of the Nigerian and British governments.

An elderly woman and a commercial motorcycle rider, Omoko Rose and Edafewogho Ekawhen, respectively, commended the former governor for developing Oghara in Ethiope West Local Government Area of the state and appealed to the Federal Government to work towards Ibori's release, noting that it would help stabilise the polity.

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