A former member of the House of Representatives and current Secretary of the African Democratic Congress Committee on Mobilisation and Registration, Dr Sokonte Davies, in this interview, expresses optimism that the ADC has the pedigree to restore integrity and end bad governance in Rivers State. Blessing Ibunge brings excerpts.
What informed your interest to run as an aspirant under the ADC for the governorship of Rivers state?
My interest is largely because I’ve seen governance take a very bad seat, specially from 2015 to today. As a politician, there is a time to politic, and there is a time to govern. After elections, you try to govern. If you are holding an executive position, you try to govern for at least three years plus. They use half a year, thereabout, to politic. But I’ve seen that, especially from 2015, it became more apparent, but from 2012, it has been politicking all through and that has negatively affected governance. Even if you look at the years Chibuike Amaechi was a governor, due to events that came up, first with the party congresses and all that stuff, and the ambitions of Mr Jonathan and a few other people, the issues of governance started taking a back seat. And it became very apparent from 2013, when even the governor of Rivers State, as at that time, didn’t have a free movement in the state as governor.
