Ogonis laud Asari’s comment directed at Patience Jonathan

The Custodian April 12, 2014

The people of Ogoni have lauded the leader of the Niger-Delta Volunteer Force and ex-Niger Delta agitator, Alhaji Mujaheed Asari Dokubo for his position on who should be the next governor of Rivers State.

Dokubo had in a media publication condemned the nomination of Nyesom Wike by the First Lady, Patience Jonathan noting that Rivers people have been unfair to the Ogoni guber ambition.

An attempt to make supervising Minister of Education, 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 Part, 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 in the past 16 years, to which Wike belongs.

He said an Ikwerre man had no business in Rivers Government House in 2015, adding that it would amount to political suicide for PDP to field Wike in the next election.

Coordinator of the Ogoni Solidarity Forum, Celestine Akpobari said Asari’s comment has justified the course of the Ogoni people to lead Rivers State in 2015.

Akpobari also said the Ogoni people have been marginalized for too long.

He said Ogoni has never been Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Chief Judge of the state, or Deputy Governor.

Also, former aspirant for the Rivers State House of Assembly, Bariledum Famaa noted that the Ogoni people will not allow continuous neglect, adding that Asari Dokubo has shown good example of statesmanship.