The country is in another
mood for electioneering campaigns that will climax to next year’s general
elections and as usual, various candidates are gearing up to contest for
different positions. Rivers state is not left out of the campaign fever and
supporters of the candidates have been going about eulogising the good
qualities of their candidates.
Not minding the endorsement
of the plethora of candidates for various positions, one area that will be of
much interest to the people of the state is who occupies the State Government
House? The two major political parties in the state have been encouraging
people to accept their parties but as much as the need to accept the parties
are concerned, Rivers people are looking at the appropriateness of electing the
best possible candidate to reside at the Brick House come 2019. This will be
the basis of their support for any candidate of their choice irrespective of
party affiliations. As it is today, I must confess that the people of the state
are really not comfortable with the ruling party in the state which is the
Peoples Democratic Party PDP. Aside the fact that the party has governed the
state for going to twenty good years, they see what they term as injustice and
a semblance of inequality in the whole situation in the state.
The people of Rivers
state needs a change in the election of the governor of the state this is why
wherever you go in the state, the feeling is that the riverine people should be
given the governorship of the state come 2019.
But like everything in
life, nothing comes free talk less of power. There has to be a concerted effort
to get power to the riverine area of the state not by wishful thinking but by
proactive approach to getting the ticket to the riverine area of the state.
One of the ways to show
that the riverine people of the state are truly geared to getting the ticket is
to field the best possible candidate for the position. Various people have been
posturing as the best candidate to wrest power from the incumbent governor of
the state but as a Rivers man who has been in the system and who is aware of
the dynamics of the politics of the state, it is my bet that if Chief Barr.
Dumo Lulu Briggs is given the ticket of the All Progressives Congress APC, he
has the capacity and the capabilities to win the governorship election next
year.
Dumo Lulu Briggs is one
politician in the state who truly has the people at heart. He does his things
in a pragmatic and practical manner which is the hall mark of modern
politicians. He has contested for the position getting to three times now and
surely has a schematic on how the state can be made to be a proud state among
the comity of states in the country.
Aside being a consummate
philanthropist, Chief Dumo Lulu Briggs is a people oriented politician that can
use the power of the people tob ring about the growth and development of the
state. I understand that the ruling party in the state may not have any
opposition to the incumbent governor of the state so, it behoves the All Progressives
Congress APC to do the needful by electing Dumo Lulu Briggs to be their flag
bearer. He is a candidate that is not controversial who will also rein in his
connections to assuage the feelings of candidates that may feel aggrieved for
not getting the nomination of the party. He is a home grown ‘Port Harcourt boy’
and has friends and business associates that transvers the length and breadth
of the state. Rivers people especially the delegates of the APC will definitely
not regret having such a personality as their governor come 2019.
The leader of the party
in the state Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi has been doing a great work mobilising
support for the party not only in the state but in the south south region. His efforts
must be supported by all members of the party and Rivers people in general who appreciates
the way and manner he changed the fortunes of the state in his tenure as
governor. There will not be a better way to show that his efforts is not in
vain if the party nominates Dumo Lulu Briggs as its flag bearer and the entirety
of the people in the state consequently votes in Dumo Lulu Briggs to come and
salvage our dear state from the precipice of mis-governance.
Ndu Chukwuladi wrote in
from Port Harcourt
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