My Nigerians Report Online was the first Nigerian news media to endorse His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR for President in the 2015 presidential election and it cost me a multimillion naira patronage of the then national ruling party, People's Democratic Party (PDP) and threats to my life. My in-laws in Buguma of Rivers State were attacked and murdered for supporting the All Progressives Congress (APC). These hired killers were cosponsored by those empowered by the former President, Mr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and his wife, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, whose mother was even my father's cousin from the same village in Abia State where the best mansion was built by Mrs. Jonathan.
I also have relations in every state in the Niger Delta. So, I know the PDP 100% more than majority of the ignoramuses insulting and swearing at President Buhari without any justification. I am royalty both in Abia state and Rivers state where my nephews and nieces are very comfortable sons and daughters of the prominent William-West Family in Buguma and my brother in-law and the presidential candidate of the PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar were senior colleagues in the Nigeria Customs Service. I am the son of a grea man who was a brave Nigerian soldier and was a friend of Major-General David Akpode Ejoor and HRH Amayanabo (King) of Twon-Brass, Bayelsa, Alfred Papapreye Diete-Spiff, the first Military Governor of Rivers State.
If not for Christianity, I would have been a foreign intelligence agent and assassin. I once worked for the Alhaji Bamanga Tukur's presidential campaign in my 20s.
I have no apologies or regrets for endorsing and supporting President Buhari. It is my national duty to defend him.
~ By EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima, Author of The Victory of Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian Dream and other books.
BOOKS BY EKENYERENGOZI MICHAEL CHIMA
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