Nigeria: 2015 - Groups Want Ogoni to Produce Rivers Governor

16 April 2014

No fewer than 12 pressure groups have so far declared support for the quest by the people of Ogoni ethnic nationality of Rivers State, to produce a successor to Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi come 2015.

The groups include; the Ikwerre-Etche Peoples Forum (IEPU), the Rivers Voice (RV), the Niger Delta Renaissance (NDR), the Council of Orashi Ethnic Nationality (COEN), the Kalabari Stakeholders Forum (KSF) and the Ijaw Justice Forum (IJF).

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