The attention of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC),
Worldwide has been drawn to a statement
credited to former President Olusegun Obasanjo
to the effect that the perceived failure of President
Jonathan in office would haunt the people of
South-South for a long time to come. This
statement was made on Friday, July 17, 2015 at
the convocation lecture he delivered at the
Benson Idahosa University, Benin City, Edo State.
The IYC considered the statement as reckless,
baseless and a deliberate effort by Obasanjo to
dent former President Jonathan’s towering image
in the international community. As usual,
Obasanjo do not want anybody in Nigeria to be
greater than him.
The IYC make bold to state that former President
Jonathan’s six years in office were far better
than Obasanjo’s eight years in office. If Obasanjo
has forgotten, we wish to remind him that
because of his reckless impunity in rigging
elections, President Yar’Adua on assumption of
office had zero regard in the international
community. However, President Jonathan has
redeemed this badly battered image by reforming
the electoral system as elections in Nigeria today
are substantially free, fair and credible with the
consequent goodwill it has generated for Nigeria
in the international community. President Buhari
would not have been receiving the highest respect
before President Obama in the United States now
if not for former President Jonathan’s efforts in
reforming the electoral system in Nigeria.
The IYC states that if there is any region that
ought to be haunted by the performance of ex-
Nigerian President, it is the South West region
and the Yoruba nation as former President
Obasanjo’s performance in office was abysmal.
However, the south west is completely exonerated
from any blame as they totally rejected Obasanjo
in 1999 because they knew very well that nothing
good could come out of former President
Obasanjo.
The Niger Delta region is proud of the
achievements of former President Jonathan in
office considering the difficult circumstances
under which he worked. Events of the past few
weeks especially the increased momentum of
Boko Haram insurgency in the northern part has
shown that Goodluck Jonathan did very well. The
IYC advises Chief Obasanjo to conduct himself
like an elder statesman and stop his
grandstanding all over Nigeria trying to pull down
other leaders.
Nigeria needs the wise counsel of elder statesmen
to pull the country out from the numerous
challenges facing it.
The IYC also decries the gradual slide to
dictatorship as exemplify by the reckless arrest
and detention of Nigerians who served under
President Jonathan such as Col. Dasuki and Mr.
Obuah without due process. It is illegal and
unconstitutional for Mr. Obuah, former Chief
Security Officer to President Jonathan to be
detained in underground cell without access to his
family members and Lawyers. We urge President
Buhari not to take us back to the days of
dictatorship. We are not in military dictatorship
but in a democratic setting where things are done
according to the rule of law.
.
.
.
Signed :
.
.
ERIC OMARE -SPOKESMAN for the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Worldwide.
.
.
.
My Take:
.
.


The submission of former President Obasanjo,
that the Niger Delta will suffer because of the
actions and inactions of President Goodluck
Jonathan whilst in office is, provocative and
unstatemanly.
It was this same President Obasanjo that accused
Jonathan of running an ijaw presidency,that now
appears to be saying, GEJ do anything for his
people. We cannot forget in a hurry the damaging
allegations the former President made against
Jonathan in his famous open letter. Till date
Nigerians are still looking for the Obasanjo alleged
killer squad.
The former President should stop inciting the
Niger Delta aborigines against Goodluck Jonathan
and the same time providing excuse for Pa Buhari
to exclude the South South, that produces the
nation resources from Federal governance. This
cannot justify why Pa Buhari has given only one
appointment to south south out of the numerous
sensitive appointments made so far .
The south south must resist any attempt to treat
them as a conquered people even when the
economic treasure base is hosted by the region.
.
.
ADD

Hmmmmmm

darfay:
Hmmmmmm

Yes ofcourse!