A leading Niger Delta activist and a delegate to the just
concluded National Conference , Ankio Briggs has joined battle to stop the
percieved ambition of the Minister of State for Education, Chief Barr Nyesom
Ezebunwo Wike to take over the mantle from Governor Rotimi Amaechi who also
comes the same Ikwerre ethnic nationality.
Though Barrister Nyesom Wike is yet to officially declare
his intention to run for the number one political office in the state, series
of adoptions and pronouncements from political associates points to the
obvious.
Earlier , Chief Anab Sara-Igbe, Hon Elemchukwu Ogbowu and
some other members of the Peoples Democratic Party inRivers state who have been
diametrically opposed to the idea of another Ikwerre
governor were expelled
from the party by the Obuah led state executive of the PDP. Chief Sara-Igbe who is a chieftain of the PDP has
argued in line with zoning principle. He and others believe that it would
amount to injustice for another Ikwerre person to mount the leadership stool of
the state after governor Amaechi.
Those who have argued in favour of a Wike governorship
ticket for the PDP believe that competency and not tribe should be the bases
for choosing the party’s flag bearer in the forthcoming 2015 general elections.
The “competency” premise is woven around the the Grassroots Development
Initiative, a sociopolitical group which is believed to be founded and funded
by Wike to actualize his governorship dream.
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