Asari Blasts Jonathan's Wife: You Can't Make Wike Rivers Gov

There is no way the next Governor of Rivers
State will be determined by First Lady
Patience Jonathan, this is according to leader
of the Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force,
Alhaji Mujahedeen Asari Dokubo.
Asari has warned Patience Jonathan that any
attempt to make minister of education Mr
Nyesom Wike the next governor of the state
would not only affect the political fortune of
President Goodluck Jonathan but also the
chances of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) in the state.
Sending out a clear warning to the President's
wife, Asari said:
"To make Wike a governor in Rivers State
in 2015 is not morally right. All the
fellows endorsing him for whatever
reason should know that it will injure
PDP, it will injure Goodluck Jonathan. If
Goodluck's name is brought into it, that
he is in support of the perpetuation of
an Ikwerre hegemony in Rivers State,
which is not right by population, which
is not right under any calculation, it will
injure him and PDP."
In an exclusive interview with Leadership, he
said the plan by the first lady to impose Wike
on the people was morally wrong in the light
of the dominance of the political landscape of
the state by the Ikwerre group, to which Wike
belongs, in the past 16 years.
It would be recalled Patience Jonathan had
ignited a controversy over the governorship
ticket of the PDP in the next election in Rivers
State on Tuesday when she said she is backing
Wike to becoming governor.
She said: "In the case of Rivers State, the First
Lady wishes to state categorically that the
supervising minister of Education, Nyesom
Wike, is the leader of PDP in Rivers State and
he enjoys the followership of the people of
the State. The First Lady is solidly behind
Wike. "The people of Rivers State are also
solidly behind Wike and are prepared to
follow him. As far as the First Lady is
concerned, there is NO SHAKING in Rivers
State."
But Asari has warned that there is
"SHAKING", insisting that Wike could not be
the next governor of the state in view of the
interests of the three ethnic clusters in the
state. He said it would amount to political
suicide for PDP to field Wike in the next
election.
"As far as we all know, there are three ethnic
clusters in Rivers State: the Ijaws, the Igbos
(Ikwerre is part of the Igbo cluster) and the
Ogonis. After Bayelsa was excised from Rivers
State, the Igbos have ruled for many years.
Odili was an Idoni Igbo; he ruled for eight
years. Omehia/Amaechi, who are also
Ikwerres, by 2015 would have ruled for more
than eight years, making over 16 years," he
explained.
"When you look at that, for somebody to say
another Ikwerre man should become
governor is wrong. Yes, constitutionally, he
has a right to aspire, everybody is free to
aspire, but it is not moral, it is not right.
Something can be legally right but it might
not be morally right.
"So if we are saying there should be justice in
Rivers State… if we are crying against
domination by others, we should not also
oppress other people. The people that morally
should be allowed to produce the next
governor of Rivers State is the Ogoni cluster
made up of the Ogonis proper and the Eleme
people."
Dokubo expressed surprise that Patience
Jonathan feigned ignorance of the
homogenous nature and political reality in
the state by openly identifying with the
minister to clinch the top job in the state in
2015.