Rivers Governership: Maeba Endorses MOSOP’s Position

Former Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream), Senator Lee Maeba says the position of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) on the 2015 governorship slot for the South East Senatorial Zone of the state is justified.

Senator Maeba stated this in an interview with newsmen last Friday at the Port Harcourt International  Airport, Omagwa, shortly on arrival from Abuja.

Insisting that MOSOP, as a pressure group from the South East Senatorial Zone was competent to speak for the people of the area, Maeba who represented the zone in the Senate said there was nothing wrong in MOSOP demanding for the governorship position in 2015, like other groups.

According to him, “MOSOP is doing its job as a pressure group, every group is free to solicit to have the candidate but at the end of the day, only one person can become the governor”.

He, however, said he has not indicated interest for any position come 2015, but emphasised that he was eminently qualified to hold the highest position in the land if given the opportunity.

Maeba dismissed opinions in some quarters that there was no political crisis in Rivers State, and urged adherence to the rule of law.

“There is no political crisis in Rivers State.  We are in a state where there is rule of law. We should obey the rule of law at all times even when it pains us”, the former lawmaker said.

In another development, the President General of KAGOTE, the apex social cultural organisation of Ogoni ethnic nationality, Dr Peter Medee, said the South East Senatorial District remains the only zone that has not produced the governor of the state.

Dr Medee noted that the area had supported others and now needs their encouragement to take a shot at the governorship positioning of the state, adding that any thing short of that would be injustice.