Patience Jonathan: Wike, Fubara should sheathe their swords — there won't be development without peace

Patience Jonathan, wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, has urged the warring parties in Rivers state to give peace a chance.

“As a peace advocate, I would like to call on the warring parties in Rivers state because it is my state and it is where I am quite interested. She said Jonathan “willingly relinquished without a fight,” adding that the former president has become a model for democracy due to his actions.“When we failed the election, I was with him . We were in the room when we were told you had lost. I did not whisper to him that he must stay because we will shed blood,” she said.In the last few months, Siminalayi Fubara, governor of Rivers, and his predecessor, Nyesom Wike, have been at loggerheads over political control of the state.

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