Rivers 2015: INC endorses Peterside

Ijaw National Congress, INC, apex body of the Ijaw nation, has thrown its weight behind the governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2015 election in Rivers State, Mr. Dakuku Peterside.

INC also hailed the APC for listening to the cry of the Ijaw in its choice of Peterside as the party’s candidate.

National Publicity Secretary of INC, Mr. Victor Burubo, in a statement, yesterday, in Port Harcourt, said it stood by its resolve to support whichever political party that would respect the Ijaw aspiration by fielding a governorship aspirant of Ijaw extraction.

“At a meeting that involved market women, leaders and elders of Ijaw, it was agreed that the Ijaw will support any political party that will respect our aspiration and field an Ijaw governorship candidate.

“INC agreed that the next Rivers State governor must come from the riverine part of the state and the APC has responded to the agitation of the Ijaw with the choice of Peterside,” the statement said.

In a related development, major stakeholders from the different ethnic nationalities in Rivers State, under the aegis of Rivers State Elders and Leaders’ Council, RELEC, have said that the a riverine person must become the occupant of Brick House from May 29, 2015 to ensure justice, equity and fairness, since Rivers governors since 1999, Dr. Peter Odili, Sir Celestine Omehia and Rotimi Amaechi, are from the upland part of the state.

The elders also described the endorsement by the Rivers caucus of the APC of Peterside, as the party’s governorship candidate, as a step in the right direction.

- Vanguard News