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Tight security at P’Harcourt screening of PDP governorship aspirants

Security was beefed up at the zonal secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party in Port Harcourt, River State, as screening of aspirants for the 2023 governorship poll got underway.

Aspirants from Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Delta, Cross River and Edo states were at the venue, which is the party’s zonal secretariat along Aba Road in Port Harcourt, according to a report by The Punch.

A number of security operatives from the police, DSS, mobile police manned the entrance, as proper identification was demanded before even journalists were allowed in.

Some of the governorship aspirants from Rivers State seen are the former state chairman of the PDP, Felix Obuah; Senator Lee Maeba; former Transport Minister, Abiye Sekibo, and David Briggs.

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