Again, some Bayelsa State youths have issued a stern warning to the wife
of the President, Patience Jonathan, not to visit the state during the Peoples
Democratic Party presidential rally on February 5.
The youths from Bayelsa creeks, under the auspices of the Mangrove Boys
of Bayelsa, warned on Tuesday that if the First Lady failed to heed their
warning, she would be thoroughly disgraced and have herself to blame.
The warning came a few days after the Bayelsa Youth Vanguard issued a
similar statement barring Patience from attending the proposed rally.
Reinforcing the position of the BYV, the creek youths asked Mrs.
Jonathan to steer clear of the rally in her own interest.
The youths, in a statement by their President, Mr. Opuyo Engobara, and
Secretary, Mr. Warrman Aderi, accused the First Lady of aiding his anointed
governorship aspirant, Mr. Waripamowei Dudafa, to recruit youths to boo and
stone Governor Seriake Dickson, at the proposed rally.
They lamented President Goodluck Jonathan’s silence over the alleged
excesses of his wife, wondering whether he intended to join in the stoning of
the governor.
They said, “In her last visit to the state, Mrs. Jonathan came ahead of
her husband, avoided the state Government Lodge and stayed at Otuoke for three
days.
“During the time, she was busy sponsoring Dudafa’s recruitment drive
with the intention to go against the governor by booing and stoning him at the
planned rally to discredit his administration before the PDP National Executive
Council.
“Is President Jonathan using this as a ploy to join Bayelsa youths to
stone Governor Dickson as promised (by the President) during his presidential
campaign in 2011 and subsequently to oust Dickson’s administration, since he
could hardly rebuke his wife in several of her political atrocities?”
The creek agitators insisted that the presence of Patience at the
proposed rally would cause tension and security breaches in the state.
They said Patience actions and pronouncement in recent times had
allegedly been fuelling crisis in the state.
The youths listed eight sins of Patience and accused her of opening a
new secretariat for the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria in the state with
an intention to use the group to mobilise against the governor.
They alleged that the First Lady tinkered with the leadership of TAN and
aided her loyalists to reposition the campaign group to actualise her ambition
of removing Dickson.
The youths further lamented that Patience used the occasion of the
sharing of the Millennium Development Goals items at the Samson Siasia Stadium
to make inflammatory statements against the governor.
They recalled that Patience attended a function in Dudafa’s town and
made open statements supporting him as the next governor.
The youths also alleged that Patience sponsored aspirants that failed in
the PDP primaries, to defect to the All Progressives Grand Alliance.
They noted that the peace currently enjoyed in the state came from the
hard work of the governor, reminiscing that in the previous government,
Jonathan’s house was razed down in Otuoke by aggrieved militants.
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I don't want to read this article; but I know that the media is not helping politics in Nigeria. The other day I read about Katsina youths sweeping out GEJ's campaign team & here this one is talking about the same thing. I now ask, what about other million youths in the states? The press naively report as if a handful of youths speak for entire youth populace of a town or state. I advise the media to be careful in their reportage. I was merely 11 when in 1966 civil war broke out in Nigeria. The west was said to be fighting in their house of assembly (chairs were flying in the air here & there then) & the press did not help matters then. The press should know that if war breaks out - all of us will not be spared. Enough of this trash.
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