How Workers Will Install Wike’s Successor -NLC Chair
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Gift EREBAH
Chairman of the NLC in Rivers State and governorship candidate of the Labour Party in the state, Mrs Beatrice Itubor has said that workers in the state will work together to ensure her emergence as the next governor of the state.
She said in a radio interview programme monitored by TNN in Port Harcourt, that having complained about the alleged insensitivity of the governor, Nyesom Wike to the plight of workers, it was time for the workers to take over the affairs of the state, through her.
She said “I have been complaining, I have been shouting, I have been crying about the peculiar, pathetic situation of the workers of Rivers State but not just that. I’m also a mother so I know the problem of youths and I am a grassroots person so we have looked round and when the workers looked at it and said, madam, come and contest.
“We also consulted with other constituencies, the youths, the students body and all others and all these people came out in their numbers and said madam, go and give it a shot and so it is based on all these. Why I am contesting is because I want to make a difference. I want to right the wrongs. All these things that they have been complaining that is not done properly, let it not continue to end up in complaints, let it be that somebody would come on board and do those things that seem impossible.
Itubor said workers had the population and could win any election even without so much money to throw around. She said her experience as manager of workers in the state was enough to help her manage the affairs of the state.
“I have worked in the public service up till retirement age. I retired in service and so there is something about governance I have learnt- experience. Have you bothered why people come back from school and they want to employ people, they would say seven years experience.
“It means there is experience you learnt on the job and so I believe that I have learnt a lot and there are no trainings I have not got, both within and outside the country. That is why when we go to the national assembly, the state assembly, we excel. And as a governor, let me put it straight, I tell people that go and do your independent investigation.
The very worst of Adams(Oshiomhole) towards the workers and even the people of Edo state is better than the best of Obaseki. Why? Because he had these labour training, it’s coming from that background, background of empathy, background whereby we are grassroots people, we do a lot of mobilizations and labour leaders of course, we are already in the grassroots, we know what the problems are.
“There is a saying that he who wears the shoes knows where its pinching and also I am connected . There is hardly any corner of this state, there is hardly any village, any hamlet that you don’t have workers and retirees.
“Most times when we go out to mobilize, we go to these local government areas, we meet with people, so there is nothing in Rivers State, so far it concerns governance, so far it concerns the yearnings of the people, that I do not have at my fingertips. So this is the experience that I’m coming with to the table.”
