dcyclone:
By Emmanuel Obe


A governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State, Barr. Soloabo West, has condemned the purported resolution of the National Caucus of the PDP to the effect that all sitting governors and members of the National Assembly on the platform of the party should be returned unopposed.

In a press statement at the weekend, West, who is the main aspirant challenging Governor Nyesom Wike for the PDP ticket in Rivers State, said the resolution diametrically precludes interested party members from vying for those positions.
“Such blanket endorsement of sitting governors and members of the National Assembly for whatever reason,” he said, “is patently undemocratic and completely shuts the door to internal party democracy.”
He disclosed that efforts by some members of the Riverine Communities in Rivers State resident in Abuja, who had volunteered to pay for both his expression of intent and nomination forms since Thursday last week have been rebuffed.
He said, “Officers at the National Secretariat bluntly refused to accept the bank draft that was issued in the name of the party, ostensibly, to prevent me from exercising my fundamental right to freely participate in the democratic processes leading to the 2019 general elections.
“Our representatives were later informed by another officer at a late hour on Friday to effect a Bank Transfer through a POS terminal payable to the PDP which was unusual, a worrisome deviation from what had been the practice and tradition of obtaining both interest and nomination forms through the payment of Bank Draft.
“I wish to state categorically that the PDP in shutting the door to democratic participation in the PDP governorship primary elections, has wilfully opened the door for me and my supporters to seek for other avenues to fully exercise our rights to participate, unhindered, in the processes leading to the 2019 general elections.”
Barr West said the action of the national office of the party had confirmed his fears that there was indeed an arrangement to deny candidates from the riverine parts of Rivers State the opportunity to participate in the governorship primaries.
West, whose campaign is founded on equity, has been fighting for the right of the people from the riverine communities to also become governor of Rivers State.
“From the foregoing, it is clear that there is a grand plan to bar any candidate from the Riverine Communities of the state from participating in the governorship primary of the PDP in furtherance of the 2019 gubernatorial election. This is unfair,” he lamented.
West however said he was not giving up on his governorship aspiration as yet. “Our options are open as we believe in the Almighty God who gives power to continue to guide our steps. For we are indeed fighting a just and equitable cause,” he said.

dcyclone:


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Lipscomb:
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dcyclone:

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Lipscomb:
time don catch up with you.

guru03:


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gatecrash123:
THIS IS NOT MY PROBLEM AT ALL...
My problem now is how to rewind the time back
to 1930s
To locate Buharis father and give him condom.

gatecrash123:
THIS IS NOT MY PROBLEM AT ALL...
My problem now is how to rewind the time back
to 1930s
To locate Buharis father and give him condom.

dcyclone:

By Emmanuel Obe


A governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State, Mr. Soloabo West has said that the riverine communities of Rivers State have for too long been politically marginalised.
West, who spoke on a Wazobia FM pidgin English programme on Friday said that since the return of democracy in 1999, the upland part of Rivers State had been kept out of the governorship of the state.
He said 20 years is long enough period to sideline a sizable proportion of the population that have a stake in the state.
And he said the unfortunate thing is that those keeping power in the upland state were not even ready to discuss its rotation.
He said though he acknowledged the merit in the Ogoni struggle to also produce the next governor of Rivers State, the Ogoni claim is also tied to the upland hold to power which has denied the riverine areas a shot at the governorship.
He said the riverine areas were being treated like outcasts. “Small time we go run enter ocean , enter shark belle, say we no from Rivers State that we from waterside,” he said.
He likened the uneven power balance in the state to the posture of a man carrying a jerry can of water in one hand. “E go dey waka one kind, bend bend,” he said, stating that it is such an awkward sight.
However, West said power rotation was not the only reason why he was wrestling with Governor Nyesom Wike for the ticket of the PDP in the state.
He said he has the education and exposure needed to drive development in the state and is putting his services before the people of Rivers State to use.
He said if given the mandate, he will take healthcare to unreached communities where maternal and child mortality was rife.
West disclosed that he had come under immense pressures from people questioning his decision to take on the governor for the PDP ticket.
The aspirant, who is a lawyer, is running with equity as his slogan.

http://thedailymetro.com/2018/09/07/2019-is-about-redressing-20-years-of-marginalisation-west/

dcyclone:

By Emmanuel Obe


A governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State, Mr. Soloabo West has said that the riverine communities of Rivers State have for too long been politically marginalised.
West, who spoke on a Wazobia FM pidgin English programme on Friday said that since the return of democracy in 1999, the upland part of Rivers State had been kept out of the governorship of the state.
He said 20 years is long enough period to sideline a sizable proportion of the population that have a stake in the state.
And he said the unfortunate thing is that those keeping power in the upland state were not even ready to discuss its rotation.
He said though he acknowledged the merit in the Ogoni struggle to also produce the next governor of Rivers State, the Ogoni claim is also tied to the upland hold to power which has denied the riverine areas a shot at the governorship.
He said the riverine areas were being treated like outcasts. “Small time we go run enter ocean , enter shark belle, say we no from Rivers State that we from waterside,” he said.
He likened the uneven power balance in the state to the posture of a man carrying a jerry can of water in one hand. “E go dey waka one kind, bend bend,” he said, stating that it is such an awkward sight.
However, West said power rotation was not the only reason why he was wrestling with Governor Nyesom Wike for the ticket of the PDP in the state.
He said he has the education and exposure needed to drive development in the state and is putting his services before the people of Rivers State to use.
He said if given the mandate, he will take healthcare to unreached communities where maternal and child mortality was rife.
West disclosed that he had come under immense pressures from people questioning his decision to take on the governor for the PDP ticket.
The aspirant, who is a lawyer, is running with equity as his slogan.

http://thedailymetro.com/2018/09/07/2019-is-about-redressing-20-years-of-marginalisation-west/

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dcyclone:


By Newsroom


…Says it is time for Riverine communities to produce a governor
Barely 24 hours after Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, declared that he will be running for a second term in office, in 2019, another aspirant, Soalabo West, has also announced his willingness to contest for governorship on the platform of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP.

West, an energy and maritime lawyer of the Kalabari ethnic extraction, says his willingness to vie for the 2019 governorship election on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, “is anchored on a new paradigm to make Rivers State great again.”

He stated that the circumstances that threw up Wike in 2015 have been actualised with his emergence as governor in 2015 under the aegis of the PDP and it is now the turn of the riverine communities to produce the Governor in 2019.

“The prevailing argument then, was that Rivers was a PDP state and the people of the state needed to wrest the leadership of the state from the All Progressives Congress, APC, the party which the then incumbent governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi defected to in 2013.”

West recalled: “Governorship aspirants from the riverine ethic nationalities were asked to work with Wike, not because the Upland/Riverine dichotomy was not there, but essentially because of imperatives of the time.”

“One, that Rivers State should go to the PDP, and second, that the state should be properly mobilised to deliver majority votes to former President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2019 presidential election.”

West emphasized that his governorship ambition is propelled by his desire to bring to the fore: vision; youthful vigour; and a pragmatic and dynamic approach to the development of the state devoid of political bickering and sectarian exclusiveness that is currently being institutionalized.”

He added: “My appeal to our youths and all stakeholders is to eschew violence and thuggery because according to former President Jonathan, nobody’s blood should be shed for anybody’s political ambition.”


https://wired.ng/politics/rivers-2019-soalabo-west-declares-governorship-under-pdp/

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ok, we dey wait

Adamsking:
By Egufe Yafugborhi



https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/09/rivers-2019-drama-as-west-challenges-wike-for-pdp-ticket/