Some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Bayelsa State have chided former President Goodluck Jonathan for working behind the curtains to nominate the state’s ministerial slot in Bola Tinubu’s forthcoming cabinet.
The chieftains under the auspices of the Bayelsa APC Elders Council, in a statement said they were taken aback why Jonathan was purportedly angling to produce a minister after actively and openly supporting the candidate of his Peoples Democratic Party ,PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
Chairman of the council, Michael Adomokeme, noted that it was wrong for Jonathan to be trying “to reap where he did not sow.”
According to him, Jonathan was threading the part of unfairness and injustice insisting that his actions could be likened to someone seeking to receive salaries from company A after working for company B.
Adomekeme, however, expressed confidence that Tinubu as a known rewarder of hardwork would not allow a situation of ‘monkey work, baboon chop’.
He said: “People shouldn’t try to reap where they have never sowed. Some of us have been here since the early days of this party, when it was considered to be a taboo just by being a member.
“You all remember, APC in Bayelsa was called either Islamic party or Hausa party by these same people, I mean, Jonathan and his people. Fast forward to the 2023 elections President Jonathan did everything to make sure we failed, but we didn’t as God would have it. What right has he to suddenly want to now nominate the minister from Bayelsa State?’
“He was president for six years, he personally nominated dozens of Ministers. Why is he now so interested in just the single we as a party in Bayelsa wants to get? Is it to truncate the APC’s visible path to victory come November?
“It is even an aberration and very demeaning for a former President to go cap-in-hand begging for a single ministerial slot. It ridicules and relegates the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria’
“He has been dubbed a statesman and hero of democracy. Fine and good, let him continue being that and not being a statesman by day and a political lobbyist by night.”
