Udengs Eradiri, the 2023 Bayelsa State gubernatorial candidate for the Labour Party, has advised the suspended Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, to kneel and beg the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike.
Eradiri believes that such an act of humility could help ease the political tension currently brewing in Rivers State. His statement comes amid ongoing political uncertainties and power struggles, with Wike being a significant political figure in the region.
Speaking to Journalist on Wednesday, Eradiri had this to say : “Governor Siminalayi Fubara, seems incompetent and that is what has brought all this negative energy. He should not involve Ijaw in his political issues and affairs. Let him tell us how he has supported the Ijaws or Ijaw activities.
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“How many Ijaws of Rivers State did he empower that he is demanding Ijaw support now? How many of the IYC comrades in the Eastern zone were LGA chairmen, commissioners and appointees in his government?
“I advise Fubara to go and kneel before Wike and beg for forgiveness. Those who are deceiving him have no balls. They go cap in hand kneeling and begging the same Wike when they get it they come in the open to claim Ijaw lions,” he said.
The ex-Bayelsa LP flag bearer faulted the way the Ijaw National Congress, INC, handled the Rivers crisis and warned the body against ethnicising political issues, insisting that the INC brought the Rivers embarrassment on the Ijaw nation.
He said the INC should not be romancing governors’ egos, adding that the institution is bigger than them and once they belittle the INC before the incompetent governors, the institutions would be ripe for ridicule and insults.
