The senator representing Rivers South-East senatorial district in the National Assembly, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, has said that no individual can kill the dream of a people even as he assured members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Tai local government area of Rivers State that the party will not be allowed to die.
Abe gave the assurance while speaking during a condolence visit to the family of a chieftain of the party, late Gideon Barika, who was until his demise, APC chairman Ward 9, Bunu in Tai local government area.
The senator said, “More importantly, I am here to let people know that APC in Tai cannot die. To tell our people that the dream of Rivers people and the dream of Ogoni people in the politics of Rivers State can also not die.
“individuals cannot kill dreams, it is God that kill dreams and he is the only one who can destroy a dream if we have a dream, our own obligation as people is to work towards what we believe and we are working towards what we believe. So I came here to encourage the party.
“We are in politics; anybody is free to go to anywhere he wants to go, but when you are going there, you cannot force everybody to go where you are going. Where your mind is, there you shall be found also. Where our own mind is, that is where we shall be found.
“And I am very happy to stand here today and see that the spirit of Tai is not broken you know ‘na when something happen, na him you go know wetin fit happen; no be so’? If something no happen, you no go know wetin fit happen.”
Senator Abe, urged the people of Tai not to be afraid and to focus on their goals and not to deterred. ” it is forward ever, backward never.”
Abe, who is the Chairman, Senate Committee on FERMA, described the late Gideon Barika as a very strong member of the APC family, pointing out that as Ward Chairman, the deceased contributed a lot to the growth of the party in Tai local government area.
He said, “I want to thank you for coming with me this morning to mourn our son, our brother and our father, Late Gideon Barika who has passed on. He was a very strong member of our party and his passing calls for us as members of the same political family to gather here today to mourn him.
“I am here because he was a strong member of this party and I’m here because it is important that we should let people know that if you do not have people and you are with us in this family, the day you need people we will be there for you.
“He was a Ward Chairman in APC, he contributed to this party, he has suffered for this party but because of what is happening in the State, we have not been able to reward those who have suffered for the party. The only way we can reward them is not to abandon the party, it is to work harder and make the party win. When the party wins, we can reward all those who have suffered, but if we abandon the party and run away, can we reward anybody? Can we help anybody? We will not abandon this party, we will work harder.
“I am the Senator representing the people of Tai in the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I am a member of the ruling party. I am the person working with the President of Nigeria. I am the representative of Tai people. There is no road in Tai that I will not pass and there is no power in Tai that will stop me from using any road. So what people don’t know, they should not talk about.”
