The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) yesterday rejected the endorsement of the Minister of State for Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike, by a faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), led by Mr. Felix Obuah, as the party’s candidate for the 2015 governorship election in Rivers State .
The group’s President, Mr. Legborsi Pyagbara, rejected the endorsement in Port Harcourt, describing it as a sentimentally disappointing approach, which he said, represented a huge conspiracy against the Ogoni gubernatorial move.
According to him, we also consider the action as an appalling and shameful response to our quest. The MOSOP thus call on the national leadership of the PDP to call Obuah to order immediately.
He said the deed was not only a deliberate infringement on fairness, but also politically inept, insensitive and unfortunate, saying it was the Ogoni governorship quest “is most popular and widely supported within the state.”
He said the PDP would be losing a golden opportunity to monopolise and secure to its electoral advantage the huge Ogoni voting strength if it failed “to commit her platform to any Ogoni seeking to govern Rivers State as Governor in 2015.”
He explained that the utterances and actions of Obuah represented a devious attempt at scuttling Ogoni’s political interest, noting that and it “is unacceptable. If the untoward development is not addressed, it would require inflexible Ogoni response.”
He added that Obuah “is acting a script as we know the forces at play. However, the stance reflects an implicit admission of what we have all along been suspecting. Nonetheless, we would like to warn that Ogoni will refuse to be confined to being heavers of water and fetchers of wood in a state that we are not inferior but eminently qualified.
“Obuah’s insistence on depriving Ogoni of her deserved berth at the office of governor of the state meant that the red line has been crossed and would no doubt provoke tough, decisive attention as we will not continue to be political passerby in our state.
“Again, is it not unfair that while Rivers West and East senatorial districts have produced governors of the state under a zoning understanding, efforts are being made to deny Rivers South East Senatorial district of the opportunity others have enjoyed?”
He therefore said the Obuah/Wike’s intention to scuttle the political understanding in the state was definitely anti-Ikwerre and his party, noting the MOSOP felt the action “negates internal democracy and paints the platform in bad light”.
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Source: ThisDay
