Bayelsa 2019: I Have Told Buhari I Prefer Governor To Minister – Lokpbobiri

THE immediate past Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, has fully committed himself into the forthcoming governorship election in Bayelsa State with his pledge to be excused from the next cabinet.

A statement issued by his media adviser, George Oji, on his handover at the end of his ministerial duty said that he had already given his intention to the president.

The statement disclosed that Lokpobiri had committed his intention to the president and sought his blessings.

He said: “Lokpobiri recently in an interview in a national television, announced that he wasn’t interested in returning as a minister because he had already met President Muhammadu Buhari and intimated him of that decision but instead would be contesting the governorship race in Bayelsa State on the platform of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in November.

“When I was appointed minister of State for Agriculture, I came with a lot of mixed feelings. I asked myself, as a lawyer what will I be doing in a ministry that is saddled with the responsibility of farming and food production and all that? But little did I know that that it is the best thing I have experienced in my life.”

“I was thinking that I would be posted to the Ministry of the Niger Delta, but the President in his wisdom decided to send me here. What I have learnt in this ministry of agriculture, I never learnt in 12 years that I was at the parliament.

 “As a senator for eight years, I never knew the potentials that exist in agriculture. Now that I am trying to explore some new opportunities, I am going to make Agriculture number one priority, if I have the opportunity of taking the experience I have here to my home State if elected as governor in November.”

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