{"id":92825,"date":"2023-07-25T21:47:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T20:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/bayelsa-apc-elders-kick-against-jonathans-alleged-attempt-to-nominate-minister"},"modified":"2023-07-26T00:03:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T23:03:55","slug":"bayelsa-apc-elders-kick-against-jonathans-alleged-attempt-to-nominate-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bayelsa-apc-elders-kick-against-jonathans-alleged-attempt-to-nominate-minister","title":{"rendered":"Bayelsa APC elders kick against Jonathan\u2019s alleged attempt to nominate minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Aggrieved elders from the Bayelsa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, have condemned alleged attempts by former President Goodluck Jonathan to nominate the State\u2019s ministerial slot in President Ahmed Bola Tinubu\u2019s incoming cabinet.<\/p>\n

The stakeholders under the auspices of the Bayelsa APC Elders Council wondered why Jonathan is angling to produce a minister after actively and openly supporting the candidate of his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alh. Atiku Abubakar.<\/p>\n

Speaking in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, 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.<\/p>\n

He said Jonathan was threading the part of unfairness and injustice, insisting that his desperation could be likened to someone seeking to receive salaries from company A after working for company B.<\/p>\n

But Adomekeme expressed confidence that President Tinubu as a known rewarder of hard work would not allow a situation of \u2018monkey work, baboon chop\u2019.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cPeople shouldn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou 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\u2019t as God would have it. What right has he to suddenly want to now nominate the minister from Bayelsa State?<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was president for six years, and he personally nominated dozens of Ministers. Why is he now so interested in just the single position we as a party in Bayelsa want to get? Is it to truncate the APC\u2019s visible path to victory come November?<\/p>\n

\u201cIt 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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