Rivers PDP Not Working For Jonathan, Owate

A former Commissioner for Education and the National Coordinator of the Rivers Mainstream Coalition, Prof, Israel Owate has said that the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State is not working for President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election.
Prof Owate, a chieftain of the party, who stated this while reacting to a comment by the state Chairman of the PDP, Brother Felix Obuah, noted that the party’s leadership was not interested in the success of the party but rather for the selfish interest of the Minister of State for Education, Chief Nyesom Wike,
He described the leadership of the party led by Obuah as selfish, myopic and indolent.
The Rivers Mainstream Coalition coordinator regretted that he and men like Chief A.K. Horsfall, an illustrious son of Rivers State, Chief Bekinbo Soberekon, and Elder Gomba Osarolo, two-time commissioner in the state, could be called ‘rascals’ by Obuah because he is promoting the ambition of Wike.
According to him, ‘’if these people I mentioned are rascals in this state, then Obuah is a saint leading PDP with Grassroots Democratic Initiative (GDI) to the Promised Land’’.
He vowed that Rivers Mainstream Coalition will continue to fight for the liberation of the party and the people from the hands of selfish, myopic and indolent people who have clutched the state’s resources and now use it for their personal aggrandizement.
‘’The will of God will intervene to liberate the state with the help of Rivers Mainstream Coalition and put the state at the next level of progress with or without the help of those who think that Rivers State is for sale.’’
Owate, who is also a lecturer at the University of Port Harcourt, urged PDP members to rise up and take up the fight for political freedom in Rivers State.
He warned that Rivers State governorship ticket of the PDP is not for sale, adding that those working or pretending that they are working for Goodluck Jonathan should watch out, as ‘some are enemies of progress.’
He, however, explained that the aim of last Saturday’s meeting with PDP governorship aspirants was to bring all the contestants to understand that they need peace and not violence, and that whoever wins the ticket should carry others along.