Human rights lawyer Chidi Odinkalu has described the continued occupancy of Kingsley Chinda as House Minority Leader while flying the APC governorship flag in Rivers as evidence of a collapsing opposition and a troubling distortion of Nigeria's democratic norms.
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Odinkalu labels Chinda’s dual APC-PDP status as ‘organised crime’
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