Former First Lady, Patience Jonathan, has been accused of planning to hijack the All Progressive Congress in Bayelsa State and impose her candidate in the forthcoming governorship election in the state.
A group known as the ‘Forum For Political Freedom in Bayelsa, has accused the wife of former President, Goodluck Jonathan of using illegally acquired wealth to heavily fund and create a power bloc in the APC in the state.
FOPOF also accused her of engaging the services of members of the defunct Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria who worked for her to tackle the leadership of the PDP in the state in the last presidential election.
The Director General of FOPOF, Elder Adenzi Kakarite, claimed that a chunk of those decamping from PDP to the APC are her close associates as well as vocal members of the defunct TAN in Bayelsa State.
Elder Kakarite stated that Patience Jonathan, who had promised to stay put in Okrika, has now made Otuoke her political sanctuary, where she holds daily meetings and raises funds, with an ultimate goal of hijacking the machinery of the APC.
FOPOF alleged that she was also funding and working with the PDP Unity Forum, made up of PDP members who were either expelled or suspended from the party over anti party activities during the last State House of Assembly polls in Bayelsa.
The statement read in part:
“The former First Lady is very greedy and selfish by wanting to sponsor the candidates of both the PDP and the APC, so that she can continue to milk the state dry.
“Bayelsans must rise up and resist this woman, who clearly does not mean well for Bayelsa state, because she was partly the reason for the husband’s defeat in the last presidential election; and since she couldn’t succeed at the national level, she wants to come and force a governor of her choice down our throats. No, we must resist it.”
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