We’ll Block Jonathan’s Move To Nominate Bayelsa Ministerial Designate In Tinubu’s Cabinet – Bayelsa APC Elders

Some elders in the Bayelsa State chapter of the APC have spoken out against former President Goodluck Jonathan’s “relentless attempts” to fill the state’s ministerial slot in President Bola Tinubu’s yet-to-be-formed cabinet.

The Bayelsa APC Elders Council accused Jonathan of attempting to produce a minister after actively and openly supporting his PDP candidate, Atiku Abubakar, during the last general election.

The elders claimed that it was wrong for Jonathan to reap where he did not sow, stressing that he was acting unfairly and unjustly about the 2023 presidential election that produced Bola Tinubu as President.

Speaking in Yenagoa, the state capital, Chief Michael Adomokeme, Chairman of the APC Elders Council in the state, said it was wrong for Jonathan to reap where he did not sow.

He claimed that the former president was acting unfairly and unjustly comparing his “desperation” to seeking to get benefits from company A after working for company B.

Adomekeme expressed confidence that President Tinubu, a well-known rewarder of hard work, would not allow a situation of “monkey work, baboo 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.

Recall that APC was called either Islamic party or Hausa party in Bayelsa State by these same people in 2014, when the party was formed and introduced to the state.

Fast forward to the 2023 elections, Jonathan did everything to make sure that the APC failed, but we didn’t as God would have it. What right does he have to suddenly wanting to nominate the minister from Bayelsa State in Tinubu’s government?

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.

When contacted, the Media Aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Mr Wealth Dickson, said the allegation is baseless and untrue because the former President didn’t have such a plan.