Brave Dickson
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in 2023, Tonye Cole has boasted that he must be in Brick House in 2023.
Cole said this on Friday when he paid political visit to some chiefs in Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The state APC governorship candidate assured his supporters that God has zoned the next dispensation governor to Kalabari, adding that the mantle of governorship has been given to him.
“The Peoples Democratic Party is owing the Kalabari people governorship slot because the first PDP leaders that signed the party into existence in the state were Late Alabo Tonye Graham- Douglas and others from Kalabari.
“While we had the power at that time to produce the governor, the founding fathers of PDP said governorship should go to upland for the interest of fairness.
“What did we get in return? Nothing but economic backwardness and daily insult on our chiefs and elders by successive governors.
“We only need the Kalabari people to unite because this time, nothing can stop me from becoming the governor of this state come 2023,” he said.
Cole also promised the people of the state that he will make the state economically better than Lagos, if elected as governor.
On his part, the traditional ruler of Okpor Kingdom in Degema LGA, His Majesty, King Diamond Tobin-West who read the communique on behalf of the chiefs appealed to other ethnic nationalities in the state to support Cole for governor.
