Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Clark, declared yesterday that Chairman of DAAR Communications, owners of African Independent Television (AIT), Chief Raymond Dokpesi, was unfit and improper to succeed Oghiadomhe as the chief of staff to the President.
Clark said categorically at a press conference at his Kiagbodo residence in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State that Dokpesi was not a suitable choice as Jonathan’s chief of staff.
He claimed that the antecedents of Dokpesi as an allegedly treacherous character made him unsuitable for the strategically important position, stressing that he was opposed to the DAAR Communications boss being brought into the presidency as a replacement for the former deputy governor of Edo State, Oghiadomhe.
A major split has hit the Presidency over the decision of President Jonathan to appoint High Chief Raymond Dokpesi as his new Chief of Staff.
Vanguard learnt from competent sources that the President has been confused by close political allies and aides, who have spoken in favour and against the idea of bringing on board the DAAR Communications chief was a member of his kitchen cabinet.
It was learnt that although it was Jonathan, who actually tabbed on Dokpesi to bring on his wealth of experience to bear on his administration and actually mobilised him to reach out to perceived northern political blocks, some well-placed aides and politicians in the ruling party, have asked him to jettison the idea.
The antagonists of Dokpesi, it was learnt, have tried to impress upon the President that it would be better for him to run the race to the end with the current CoS, Chief Mike Oghiadomhe, who was also a deputy governor like Jonathan and had shown uncommon loyalty and support to him.
