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The defeated All Progressives Congress (APC)
Governorship candidate for Rivers State in the
2015 General Elections, Mr. Dakuku Peterside
was widely reported in the media to have visited
Chief John Oyegun, the Party’s National
Chairman along with some party faithfuls from
the State, whom he described as orphans, to
decry their abandonment by the Party hierarchy.
In the said visit, Mr. Peterside, made veiled
allusions to the displeasure of the depleting APC
fold in Rivers State in being abandoned after its
monumental financial contributions to the Party
in the last General Election.
The Governorship candidate also called on the
invocation of the proverbial Federal might to
enable the APC win all the Legislative seats it
may have armtwisted the Elections Petitions
Tribunal to unjustly nullify against known legal
principles.
According to Dakuku, “We have 22 seats in a
House of 32-man membership. Winning all 22
seats will give us 23 seats and that will enable
us produce the Speaker of the House.
“Presently, the Party does not have a two-third
majority in any of the chambers of the National
Assembly…Now the opportunity to up the party’s
numbers in these chambers has come and WE
EXPECT THAT THE PARTY WILL DO ALL THAT
IT TAKES TO WIN ALL 12 House of
Representatives and 3 Senate Seats.”
That Dakuku Peterside wants a Party lacking
leadership and direction; one that has shown a
clear disdain for the people of Rivers State and
indeed the South of Nigeria and is ruining
Nigeria’s economy, to DO ALL IT TAKES TO WIN
in Rivers irrespective of its unpopularity in the
State, surely justifies why he also said, “We are
called all sorts of names including being branded
as traitors and almost live like outcast in our
communities and environments…”, as only
traitors will stop at nothing to see their people
impoverished and enslaved.
One even wonders how a Party which
acknowledges to being polularly referred to as
outcasts can command a legitimate victory in
any election in such an environment. This is why
Dakuku’s visit and prayer to Baal, the authority
that wishes to command unquestionable
obeisance from all Nigerian citizens and
institutions, is against the people of Rivers State
and the security of the future of their children’s
children.
In the said meeting, Oyegun decried the Party’s
loss of oil-rich states like Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta
and Akwa Ibom and intimated on the probe, and
perhaps likely prosecution, of Supreme Court
Justices for delivering judgments against the
APC.
One wonders what other proof does any Nigerian
of South South extraction need to conclude that
the interest of the APC was the oil wealth of the
region, which it intends to stop at nothing with
the help of people like Dakuku to possess and
mine for the sole benefit of exclusionists and
fundamentalists. Why then does Dakuku
Peterside decry the tag of being a Judas and an
outcast? Does he expect to stand against the
legitimate aspirations of a people and not attract
that ire and wrath?
Dakuku Peterside also prayed Baal to, among
other things:
– Purge of vestiges of and sympathisers for the
immediate-past federal government
administration in the leadership of Security
agencies, especially in the Police and Nigeria
Security and Civil Defence Corps and demanded
– That political appointments in all Federal
government Ministries, Departments and
Agencies including ambassadorial positions be
made to reflect the current realities of a change
of government.
Then he pleaded for an appointment with the
high priest himself; raising eyebrows and strong
doubts to claims that the misappropriation of the
commonwealth of Rivers State to the APC had
secured a prime position for the State in the
Party. That appeared not to be the case with the
appeal for an appointment to see the high priest.
What could be more condescending to the Rivers
man than this? After funding a Presidential
election and betraying our own, they are begging
for access? Is it not time for Dakuku to cut the
crap and redeem himself? Since when has the
Rivers man gone cap in hand abegging to those
he feeds?
One would have thought that Dakuku Peterside
would take on the olive branch extended by
Governor Wike of Rivers State and team up to
build a better State. But it does appear that that
will not be the case as the APC is hellbent on
possessing Rivers State and as such will be dealt
a defining blow on March 19, 2016. Nothing will
be more appropriate.
All Rivers people and residents are on the same
page on the fact that the State will not be a
cashcow for the enslavement of our people by
fundamentalists.
