Remain In PDP And Stop Meddling Into The Affairs Of APC: BEC Advises Jonathan

A Group known as Bayelsa APC Elders Council has urged former President Goodluck Jonathan to remain the People’s Democratic Party leader and stop meddling into the affairs of APC.

This was as the group advised him to desist from trying to nominate the state’s ministerial slot in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s forthcoming cabinet.

Speaking in Yenagoa, on Tuesday, the Chairman of the council, Chief Michael Adomokeme said it was wrong for Jonathan to be trying to reap where he did not sow.

BEC said that he is known as a statesman and hero of democracy adding that he should remain so wondering why Jonathan was angling to produce a minister after actively and openly supporting the candidate of his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar.

The group said Jonathan was threading the part of unfairness and injustice insisiting that his desperation could be likened to someone seeking to receive salaries from company A after working for company B.

But Adomekeme expressed confidence that President Tinubu as a known rewarder of hardwork would not allow a situation of ‘monkey work, baboon chop’.

He said” Jonath 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.

“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 remembers of APC in Bayelsa were 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, 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’

New Telegraph