Activist Ann-Kio Briggs Lashes Tinubu, Says He Is Shameless To Have Visited Jonathan

By Akinwale Kasali

Human Rights Activist and foremost Environmentalist, Ann-Kio Briggs, has lashed All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for having the audacity to visit former President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and seek his support in actualizing his 2023 Presidential ambition.

Briggs described the former Lagos State Governor and APC National Leader as shameless and lacks integrity.

The Environmentalist noted that Tinubu should be ashamed of himself for consulting Jonathan over his Presidential race a few years after heaping verbal attacks and insults on the former President and his wife, Patience, because he was a minority President from Ijaw in the Niger Delta.

She added that Tinubu was one of the opponents of the Jonathan administration, who mobilised opposition against him and called him all sorts of derogatory names.

“Politics in Nigeria is a filthy game about personalities, not about the people, if not, Tinubu should be too ashamed to visit Jonathan and sit down on the chair in his house.

“This is a man (Tinubu) that cannot differentiate between politics of ideology and shameful politics. They hauled insults at him (Jonathan), they hauled insults at his wife.

“They constructed effigies to mock Jonathan; they organised ‘Occupy Nigeria’ and paraded with coffins and did all kinds things against Jonathan. Today, they are shamelessly visiting Jonathan, sitting on his chair in his house.”

Showering encomiums on the humility, maturity and elder statesman attitude of Jonathan, Briggs  described Jonathan as “a kind-hearted man and Ijaw son” who had been vindicated on many fronts, stressing that he had acknowledged while in office that he was the most insulted and abused president.

The Niger Delta born activist said that Tinubu and his ilk should realise that the oil and gas resources in Jonathan’s Niger Delta remained the sources of their feeding and wellbeing of Nigeria, adding that “after all the insults, calling him clueless, they are now visiting Jonathan and sitting in his house.”

She had earlier on her  Facebook page, expressed similar views, saying that all anti-Jonathan elements, including the APC Presidential candidate, would have their payback time.

She stated that Tinubu could not hate Ijaw people in 2015 when Jonathan lost his re-election bid and hope to achieve victory in the forthcoming Presidential poll in Ijaw land.

Briggs further said, “One by one, from top to bottom, they all go back to Jonathan to receive their shovel of hot coal on their heads. I will tell the APC/Tinubu for free that if Ijaws vote for him, it will not be at a level for him to claim victory in Ijaw nation. He cannot hate Ijaws in 2015 and expect Ijaws to vote for him in 2023. Jonathan is an Ijaw son and man, but all Ijaws are not Jonathan.

“Go and collect your debt from Buhari, Jonathan no get vote for you inside our creeks, swamps and mangroves. Ijaw youths are not going to eat the corn and groundnut you are offering, we have enough plantain, fish and all the oil and gas we need to import all we want to eat.”