Opposition Against Jonathan ‘So Much, It’s Unbelievable’, Says Ankio Briggs

Ms Ankio Briggs
Ms Ankio Briggs

A prominent Niger Delta rights activist, Ms Ankio Briggs has attributed corruption in the country to bad leadership.

Ms Briggs, who spoke at an intercessory prayer meeting organized by a group known as Christians in Politics Prayer Network for President Goodluck Jonathan in Port Harcourt, Rivers State yesterday, called on Nigerians to pray fervently for God’s intervention in the country.

“In Nigeria today, we need God. We have been governed in the wrong way as a people. There is still corruption in the system. Things are not the way they are supposed to be. That is why we need to go God. Nigeria can change; Niger Delta can change if we go to God in prayers. I think we cannot be pretending about the government of Nigeria. Things have really gone bad”, she said.

Ms Briggs, who is one of the leaders of the National Summit Group, also decried the rising opposition to Mr. Jonathan’s 2015 presidential bid and expressed optimism that those who are the president’s second term ambition will fail.

“We definitely cannot pretend that a South-South man is the president of this country. We cannot pretend that Nigeria was governed by people from a particular region in Nigeria for more than 36 years. We now have a man from another region that has been there for only two and half years and the opposition against him is so much, it is unbelievable”, she said.

Earlier, the coordinator for the Network, Pastor Solomon Ikpesa, said the intercessory prayer was initiated to bring the finger of God to bear in the affairs of Nigeria politics, leadership and governance.

“Our drive is that only one with the fear of God rules Nigeria. Our mission is enforcing the will of God in government through teaching and prayers. We are not militants, but we are powerful in prayers. Our weapons are not carnal but mighty through God for pulling down strongholds in this country. This is a political Tsunami; it will wipe away wicked rulers. We must entrench the fear of God. We have about 50 pastors that come together every Tuesday for this purpose”, he said.