Rivers LG Polls: SDP Chieftain Roots For Ogbogolo In AWELGA

Ahead of the scheduled October 5 local government elections in Rivers State, the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Ahoada State Constituency candidate in the 2023 general elections, Mr Ned Lovin, has called for the zoning of the council chairmanship position to the Ogbogolo Kingdom.
Mr Lovin, who spoke in an exclusive interview with The Tide in Port Harcourt, said Ogbogolo has remained the only ethnic group in Ahoada West Local Government Area that has not produced a Chairman of the council since its creation.
The stakeholder described Ahoada West Local Government Area as multi-ethnic LGA, adding that time has come for both the Ekpeyes and the Engennis to concede the chairmanship to the Ogbogolos.
He said this would ensure fairness, equity, inclusiveness, justice and harmonious co-existence among all the ethnic groups in the area.
Mr Lovin argued that the present arrangement where the chairmanship position is being zoned to the Ekpeyes is not in the best interest of the local government area.
According to him, the immediate past chairman of the council, Hon Hope Ikiriko, is an Ekpeye man as well as the present caretaker committee chairman, adding that it would not be fair for another Ekpeye man to come as chairman of the council at this time.
Mr Lovin who hails from Engenni Kingdom said the Engennis are presently occupying the Ahoada West House of Assembly seat and therefore should support the Ogbogolos for the council seat.
He decried the current political situation in the country, adding that until the society begins to do things right, it could never get out of the present problem.
“Politics as it today, we should tell ourselves the truth, we have not advanced to the stage of politics that it ought to be because the politics of today is dog eat dog, backstabbing, strife, infighting, every one wants to take the lead”, he said.
He also decried the absence of morality in our political system, adding that the society could not get it right as long as everybody is looking at his or her personal interest.
“If you asked me what is my interest today, it might not also be right”, he said.
Mr Lovin stressed the need for Rivers people to follow what is right, irrespective of who might be involved.

By: John Bibor