The President, Rivers Patriotic Vanguard, has said it is a figment of imagination of those who alleged that wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Mrs Patience Jonathan recently met former Niger Delta Militants headed by Chief Ateke Tom in Okrika, Rivers State to discuss modalities of supporting the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Timipre Sylvain in the January 9 rescheduled governorship election in Bayelsa State, describing the purported meeting as untrue.
Speaking at a media roundtable in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Sunday, the group’s President, Dr. Bright Numofagha stated that Mrs. Patience Jonathan, who is the Chair of the group’s board of trustees at no time contemplated giving any kind of support to the Bayelsa APC governorship candidate, describing the rumoured support and meeting with Chief Ateke Tom led former militants group as ‘’ridiculous and unfounded’’.
He stated that those peddling the `falsehood’ should have known that it was impossible for Mrs Jonathan to support any other candidate against the choice of her husband, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, in his home State of Bayelsa, other than the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s flagbearer, Governor Henry Seriake Dickson.
The group, therefore, urged the general public, to disregard the rumoured endorsement of Chief Timipre Sylva by Dame Patience Jonathan, as it described it as the desperate attempt by the APC in Bayelsa State and its candidate to ride on the goodwill of the Jonathans in Bayelsa State, to manipulate the outcome of the supplementary governorship election in the State, scheduled for the 9th of January, 2016.
The group advised Chief Timipre Sylva to accept the decision of the people of Bayelsa State, as expressed during the December 5th 2015 election, where Governor Dickson currently maintains a clear lead in six of the seven local governments, where results have already been declared in the election.
Dr. Numofagha also urged the people of Bayelsa, to remain peaceful and law abiding and never succumb to any form of violence and intimidation that the expected engagements of known Militants and political thugs, by the Bayelsa State APC, may have been intended to achieve.
He further noted that former President Goodluck Jonathan and his family, including the wife, are currently on vacation in the United Kingdom, hence there was no way Mrs Patience could have attended any political meeting the last few days.
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