The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may lose the 2015 governorship election in Rivers State if the current crisis rocking the party is not urgently addressed by its national leadership, a Niger Delta rights activist Ms Ann-Kio Briggs has said. Ms Briggs, who spoke to journalists in Port Harcourt, said the grand plans by the immediate past minister of state for education, Barrister Nyesom Wike, to succeed Governor Rotimi Amaechi, who is from his zone, in 2015 was unacceptable to other ethnic nationalities. Briggs warned that the situation may be “bloody” and that no amount of rigging would guarantee the PDP victory in the governorship election in the state if the party chooses Wike as its flag bearer. She said the only two qualified ethnic groups to succeed Amaechi are the Ogonis and Ijaws, adding that Kalabari alone can boast of huge voting strength giving the fact that it controls nine out of the 23 local government areas in the state. “The situation in Rivers State is going to be bloody, because it seems as if PDP national appears to be listening to one person alone in a state of multi-ethnic nationalities. PDP must dialogue with all the stakeholders if they want to win the state. “If Rivers State boils in the course of the election, the economy of Nigeria will crumble and the world will come to its knees. This country, as it is now, does not need any political instability. For peace to reign therefore, the right thing must be done by the party,” she warned.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 18:50:25 +0000
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