APC stakeholders in Bayelsa State have expressed their displeasure with what they called “the former president Goodluck Jonathan’s relentless attempts to nominate the state’s ministerial slot in President Bola Tinubu’s upcoming cabinet.”
The participants, who spoke under the aegis of the Bayelsa APC Elders Council, expressed surprise that Jonathan was allegedly trying to produce a minister after actively and publicly supporting Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, a candidate for his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Chief Michael Adomokeme, the council’s chairman, stated at a speech in the state capital of Yenagoa on Tuesday that it was immoral for Jonathan to be attempting to “reap where he did not sow.”
He maintained that Jonathan was treading a fine line between unfairness and injustice and that his conduct may be compared to those of someone who is trying to get paid by company A after working for company B.
Adomekeme expressed hope that President Tinubu, who is known for rewarding effort, would prevent a situation in which “monkey work, baboon chop” would occur.
His words: “People shouldn’t try to reap where they have never sowed. Some of us have been here since the early days of this party, when it was considered to be a taboo just by being a member.
“You all remember, APC in Bayelsa was called either Islamic party or Hausa party by these same people, I mean, Jonathan and his people. Fast forward to the 2023 elections President Jonathan did everything to make sure we failed, but we didn’t as God would have it. What right has he to suddenly want to now nominate the minister from Bayelsa State?’
“He was president for six years, and he personally nominated dozens of Ministers. Why is he now so interested in just the single we as a party in Bayelsa wants to get? Is it to truncate the APC’s visible path to victory come November?
“It is even an aberration and very demeaning for a former President to go cap-in-hand begging for a single ministerial slot. It ridicules and relegates the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria’
“He has been dubbed a statesman and hero of democracy. Fine and good, let him continue being that and not being a statesman by day and a political lobbyist by night.”
