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.
Source: The Punch
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