Asari Dokubo Dares Patience Jonathan: You Can’t Make Wike Rivers Governor The next governor of Rivers State will not be determined by First Lady Patience Jonathan, according to leader of outlawed Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force Alhaji Mujahedeen Asari Dokubo. An attempt to make supervising minister of education Mr Nyesom Wike the next governor of the state, Dokubo warned, would not only affect the political fortune of President Goodluck Jonathan but also the chances of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. He said the plan by the first lady to impose Wike on the people was morally wrong in the light of the dominance of the political landscape of the state by the Ikwerre group, to which Wike belongs, in the past 16 years. “To make Wike a governor in Rivers State in 2015 is not morally right. All the fellows endorsing him for whatever reason should know that it will injure PDP, it will injure Goodluck Jonathan. If Goodluck’s name is brought into it, that he is in support of the perpetuation of an Ikwerre hegemony in Rivers State, which is not right by population, which is not right under any calculation, it will injure him and PDP,” Dokubo stated in an exclusive interview with LEADERSHIP friday yesterday. Mrs Jonathan had ignited a controversy over the governorship ticket of the PDP in the next election in Rivers State on Tuesday when she said Wike enjoyed her backing in his gubernatorial ambition. The first lady, in a statement issued in a reaction to a report that she had dumped Wike for a candidate from the riverside area of the state, preferably one from her Okirika stock, in the countdown to 2015, said she was solidly behind the minister in his bid to occupy the Brick House, Port Harcourt ........ --LEADERSHIP NEWS
Posted on: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 08:24:04 +0000
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