Jonathan Has No Vote For you, Ann-kio Briggs knocks Tinubu

Frontline Niger Delta and environmental rights activist, Ann-Kio Briggs, has taken a swipe at the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, for seeking former President Goodluck Jonathan’s support ahead of the 2023 general election.

Reacting to Tinubu’s consultative visit to Jonathan at his Abuja residence on Tuesday, Briggs in an interview described Tinubu as “shameless”.

Briggs said 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 said, “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 a 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.”

While describing Jonathan as “a kind-hearted man and Ijaw son” who had been vindicated on many fronts, Briggs stressing that he had acknowledged while in office that he was the most insulted and abused president.

The human rights activist said 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.”

Recall that Tinubu and his running mate, Kashim Shettima, had on Tuesday visited the former president at his residence in the nation’s capital.

Other All Progressives Congress stalwarts who accompanied the APC presidential candiate on the visit include Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun; Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong; and Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle.