By Adesina Soyooye
The Bayelsa State Commissioner for Youths Development, Alfred Kenepado, has a message for President Bola Tinubu.
“Nobody gets votes for the President by insulting the people.” Following from that, the Commissioner warned President Tinubu over what he noted are the reckless statements usually thrown about by Nyesom Wike, Minister for the Federal Capital Territory.
He said the insults thrown Ijaw people by Wike could cost President Tinubu votes in 2027 for his second term in office.
Commissioner Kemepado who spoke on Arise TV’s ‘The Morning Show’ warned that Wike’s disrespectful manner of speaking could cost Tinubu needed votes in the 2027 Presidential Election particularly from those communities that have been bad-mouthed and insulted by the President’s Minister, Mr Wike
“Nobody gets more votes for the president by insulting the people. If anybody serving the President goes about insulting people everywhere, is that how to woo more votes for the president?
“So on the day of election, would you leave your units and wards and go to these places you’ve been insulting people?”
The commissioner’s reaction stemmed from Wike’s reference to the Ijaw Nationality as a “minority group.”
The Commissioner posited that “insulting remarks about any group’s ancestry are inappropriate for anyone holding government office and could have far-reaching political consequences.”
He continued: “It is not about whether the PDP is worried. The President should be worried that one of his appointees is going about disrespecting and insulting people.”
It is a burden on the President, Kemepado pointed out.
On the face-off between his Governor, Senator Duoye Diri, and Wike, especially, over Diri’s ban of the solidarity rally/support planned for April 12 in Yenagoa, Capital of Bayelsa State, by Wike’s loyalists, the Commissioner defended Diri’s position.
He said: “Governor Diri is afraid of nothing. We have a responsibility to provide governance and one of the things we have achieved is peace. He acted to prevent potential political unrest.
Diri is not worried about the possibility of emergency rule being imposed on Bayelsa, similar to what happened in neighboring Rivers State.”
The Group insists that its programme would go on as planned.
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