Ann-Kio Briggs, a Rivers Elders Forum member, claims that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has abused the trust of Rivers State residents and Nigerians.
She claimed that the party’s inaction had caused the state’s residents to experience protracted political crises.
Read more about Rivers People’s Agreement with Tinubu by Ann-Kio Briggs here.
She lamented on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics about the state’s political developments that, despite Rivers residents’ longing for the PDP since 1999, the party has failed to rise to the occasion when it was most important.
“We have always voted for the PDP, including myself, for the PDP, so I feel let down by the political party as a stakeholder and elder,” said the elder.
The PDP would not have been where it is today, according to Briggs, if they had intervened and done what they should have done right away, not just in Rivers State but as a political party so well-known in the Niger Delta.
She claims that the PDP allowed internal divisions and power struggles to erode its influence. She further claims that Rivers State’s political situation had been worsened as a result of the party’s negligence, causing the state to deal with consequences that might have been avoided.
Intervention by Tinubu
The Rivers elder distanced herself from such sentiments, saying that politicians may have their own reasons for being appreciative. Governor Siminalayi Fubara has publicly commended President Bola Tinubu for bringing about peace in the Rivers.
No, even the President will be aware that not everyone in Rivers State will be forever grateful to him, or even Nyesom Wike, the FCT minister, and all the politicians, in fact.
He claimed that both the APC and PDP have contributed to the deepening of the crisis, noting that “he is the politician, and I am not as happy or grateful to the APC party as the governor is.”
She argued that the electorate is what has taught the most, not the politicians.
The electorate and the people of Rivers State have learned that we have rights that are much bigger and deeper than what politicians believe they have, in my opinion.
Source: Channels TV
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