Minister of State for Agriculture
and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, has revealed that he had
told President Muhammadu Buhari that he would not want to return as a Minister
in his cabinet.
Lokpibiri said he had informed
the President that he would contest the Bayelsa State governorship race
instead.
Lokpobiri said this in an
interview on Channels TV, yesterday, adding that he has learnt a lot under
President Buhari and was eager to become Bayelsa governor to replicate all he
had learnt.
He said, “I met the president a
few days ago and I told him that I want to run for governorship in Bayelsa
having thanked him for appointing me as a minister.
“I have learnt so much under him
in the four years than what I learnt as a parliamentarian for 12 years. I want
to take that experience back home and see how we can build a Bayelsa beyond
oil.
“Sylva is not my godfather. When
I was speaker in 1999 he (Sylva) was special assistant to Alamieyeseigha. When
I came to the Senate, he became governor.
“Yes, I must concede he came into
APC and might have facilitated my appointment as minister but that does not
make him my godfather. In 2007, when he got elected as governor, I got elected
as Senator. In 2007, I was with Timi Alaibe and that was how I got the ticket.
“In 2011, we worked together even
when former president Goodluck Jonathan and Governor Seriake Dickson were
fighting him. I worked for him and not Dickson.
“The APC governorship ticket
would not divide us. As far as I am concerned, it is going to be a family
affair. We might go into primaries and whoever wins would fly the party’s flag
and I believe I am going to win,” he said.
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