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Imiete Akebi, the legal adviser to the state chairman of Community of Reformed Youth Initiatives, CRY, has described the governorship candidate of Young Progressives People Party, YPP, in Rivers State, Danagogo Wenike-Briggs as the expected messiah.
Akebin who spoke on behalf of the state chairman of the organisation, Prince Okul Amos said Wenike-Briggs has all that it takes to deliver the dividends of democracy to Rivers people “and when you talk about competence, here is the young man that could deliver what we have.
“In the life of this candidate that this NGO has bought the form for, you will see that he is capable, he’s quite qualified and he has everything it takes; you talk about agriculture, you talk about entrepreneurship, you talk about education, these are the key things that he has driven over the years.
“The Community of Reformed Youth Initiative has been at the forefront, he has been the driver that has being driving it and we have seen the change in all the local government in Rivers State. We believe that since he has done it in the past he should be given a bigger platform to ensure that these transformation policies, the project he has being doing with this NGO he will be able to do it at the state level too. I believe that he will emerge because he has all that it takes; he has everything he is in touch with the people at large.”
He explained that “the NGO has been on ground in Rivers State and they have work very hard to ensure that the lives of the youths are transformed and that things are no longer the way it used to be. It’s a kind of organization that has reformed the mind of the youth you know what we’ve moved from the sub-structure to the super-structure, it’s a paradigm shift moving from the old era. The organization has helped so much in ensuring that this youth are position in a way that they will affect their society positively and this in rivers state as we speak.”
Also speaking, chairman of the Party, Prince Omangima Harry, while addressing the people said, “there is no big name, we are all political parties and we are the party to beat in this election because we have not held government for fifty something years, we are barely five years old and we have come this far. The only challenge we have is the general elections, we want it free, fair and transparent.
On his part, Wenike-Briggs who spoke with TNN in an interview said “long before now we’ve started this NGO to see how we can push through the effect of unemployment, the rate of poverty is about 23.9% and the unemployment rate is about 43. 7% which is very high and Rivers State produces about 21.9% of the national crude oil which is supposed to bring victory to Rivers State but it’s unfortunate that we can’t even have our own refinery as an oil producing state, it’s sad to us.
