Dr. Peter Odili May Emerge PDP National Chairman

Dr. Peter Otunuya Odili

Dr. Peter Otunuya Odili a native of Ndoni in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State and a former Governor of Rivers State, may become the next National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) following the latest zoning of the position to the south south geo political zone.

The National Caretaker Committee of the party led by Senator Ahmed Makarfi had last week announced that the party’s next national convention where national officers are to be elected is to hold in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.

The stakeholders of the party disclosed to our correspondent that the position came barely three days after the party said it had zoned the office of the National Chairman to the southern part of the country.

It was gathered that the position is between the former National Deputy Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus and the former Governor, Dr Peter Odili.

ObinitonReport learnt that the wind may favour Dr Odili following his popularity both in Rivers State and the country.

Dr Odili was the Governor of Rivers State between 1999 to 2007 and during the period, earned himself the ‘’Golden Governor” tag. He was also one of the presidential aspirants on the platform of the PDP but had to withdraw to give way for the emergence of the late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.

Efforts to reach some PDP bigwigs in the state by ObinitonReport were not fruitful as they declined to comment on the issue.