AS TONYE COLE’S GUBER BID SUFFERS ACCEPTANCE
Dom Zimepagi
Confusion, regret and last minute shopping for substitute for Tonye Dele Cole as governorship aspirant in Rivers state has become the preoccupation of the activities of Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi the leader of All Progressive Congress in Rivers state. This arrangement came to the fore as one his political diehard follower Dr. Dawari George a onetime Commissioner in the executive cabinet of the then Governor of Rivers state Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi popularly addressed as “CRA I BELIEVE”surreptitiously obtained Expression of Intention and Nomination Form for the All Progressive Congress-APC Governorship Primaries slated to take place on Tuesday, 25th of September, 2018. www.towncrier.ng in its assertive evidential investigation came out with the facts that all political intrigues of the governorship aspirants in APC has now shifted to the Federal Capital Territory Abuja where the struggle to outwit each other has reached its peak within the power brokers in APC National party hierarchy.
Dawari George Ph.D Barrister Dumo Lulu-Briggs
The three APC governorship aspirants comprising Tonye Dele Cole Ph.D, Barrister Dumo Lulu-Briggs and Dawari George Ph.D all from Akuku-Toru Local Government Area a Kalabari ethnic nationality enclave has elucidated concerns about how smart the Minister of Transportation wants to be by positioning these men for one of them to grab the gubernatorial ticket of the party come Tuesday 25th of September, 2018. First, it was on Monday 10th of September, 2018 when the Sierra Leone Nigerian born Tonye Dele Cole visited Kalabariland the first in so many years where he paid homage in the company of the assumed Rivers state APC party Chairman Ojukaye Flag Amachree, Prince Tonye Princewill and Dawari George in attendance that it resoundingly became apparent to the Abuja based Rivers state politicians fronting Tonye Dele Cole that he is aloft in the murky waters of Rivers state politics. The reports reaching stated that Tonye Dele Cole issued a Bank Cheque of One Hundred and fifty Thousand naira to a First Class traditional Ruler in Kalabari Kingdom while the sum of One Hundred Thousand naira was made available to few Opinion leaders while the grassroot supporter who accompanied him in the search for his assumed ancestry connection to Kalabari kingdom where left without any monetary compensation for their daily transportation and afternoon meal except that he prayed for the “God Bless You” as he waved at them smiling when he boarded an aircraft that took off to Abuja where he went to submit his Governorship Expression of Interest and Nomination forms.
Tonye Dele Cole Ph.D
Senator Magnus Ngei Abe
So, disquiet and anger followed the people back to their various homes as they swore never to support Tonye Dele Cole a man who never believed in putting stomach infrastructure first in debut political outing. it was in the midst of this avowed negligence of the need of the supporters of Tonye Dele Cole that www.towncrier.ng reliably gathered that prompted Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi to ask Dawari George to go and pick Governorship Expression of Interest and Nomination Form to avoid a situation whereby CRA I BELIEVE team will lose out to distinguish Senator Magnus Ngei Abe a fierce frontline Governorship aspirant in Rivers state.