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Echoes Of Marginalisation In south-south. by Chidi4u(m): 11:47am On Mar 03, 2013 |
Support for the government of President Goodluck Jonathan appears to be shrinking in the South-South, following complaints from the area regarding neglect by the president, writes Idowu Samuel. PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan may be in for boisterous moments ahead of the 2015 presidential election, considering the groundswell of opposition that has consistently been growing against his perceived ambition to re-contest. The birds seem to be returning to the roosting points for that speculated ambition, at least for now. First, it is beyond doubt that the Northern part of Nigeria is poised for a battle with Jonathan. Aside the incubus of terrorism that has for months been raging to give the Jonathan administration some sleepless nights, the elite of the region seem to be keeping strong malice against his government. That is rooted in the heckling of the zoning arrangement which the presidency of Jonathan allegedly violated against the northern interest. The governor of Niger State, Aliyu Babangida, echoed such malice early in the week when he averred that the patience of the North had run out on Jonathan. By that, Babangida was of the view that the North would not allow the president the chance of a second term on the basis of a pact on a single term he earlier signed with the northern leaders. The South-West zone has been a considerate ally of President Jonathan. The zone embraced him fully before the 2011 election and took steps to demonstrate support for him with overwhelming votes that boosted his all round victory at the poll. Yet, the zone believes it is being made to sulk ruefully for the act of magnanimity it showed the president during his moment of distress. Today, the South- West is convinced that Jonathan is never ready to show gratitude with expected fair patronage meant to make it feel good for being an ally. It remains to be seen whether Jonathan would respond to the strident protest of marginalisation by the South- West. The South-East, which had a thawing relationship with Jonathan before and after 2011, appears to be having a rethink on its support for the president. The youths of the zone held a conference lately in Enugu and ended with aspersions on the present administration, which they accused of precipitating the degeneration of Nigeria into a failed state. The conclusion by the youths sounded like a vote of no confidence in the regime of a man they had always risen to defend. The South-East is already joining hands with other zones of the federation to ensure that Nigeria holds a dialogue before 2015 to determine the direction to take the country, contending that an alternative to the National Conference being clamoured was chaos. When stress begins to build up for the president on his ambition to stay on in power, the next zone to lean on for support is his home base, the South-South. Even at that, the zone appears not to be totally convinced that Jonathan is a man to take a second bet on. Of late, there has been a protests from all parts of the zone against the Jonathan government, a signal that the president has not impressed his people to a great extent. From the South-South zone today, unions of ethnic groups have been mushrooming, telling the world that he had neglected his home base too. The grouse of the ethnic unions was that the president had been pandering only to interest of the Ijaw nation where he hailed from at the expense of other ethnic groups from the zone. The Urhobo and the Itshekiri which both have strong unions in the South- South, are the most outspoken on the alleged marginalisation of other ethnic groups in the zone. The Urhobo Progressive Union (UPU), led by General Patrick Newton Aziza, was reported to have held a meeting recently to review the support of the ethnic group for President Jonathan. The group has consistently complained of neglect by the Federal Government, threatening to withdraw support for the president if the supposed marginalisation of the Urhobo in government did not stop. A member of the group, Dr Ezikiel Ned Onwumi, who spoke with newsmen after the meeting, said: “We are not pleased with the Jonathan administration because we have since discovered that the president has given virtually everything due to the South- South to only his Ijaw people, leaving out the interest of other ethnic groups in the region unprotected.” The aggregate view among members of the union was that the ‘marginalised’ ethnic groups in the South-South should start seeking cooperation with other parts of the country ahead of 2015. Not too long ago, the Minister of Niger Delta, Godsday Obubebe, engaged in a verbal warfare with the Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, on the interest of President Jonathan in the zone. The fight between the two had, however, thrown up the familiar issue of neglect of the zone by the present government headed by one of its own. Amaechi had challenged Orubebe to name one project ever commissioned by the Jonathan administration in the South- South. The failure of the East- West road project appeared to be the heart of grievances by the people against Jonathan A senator from Rivers State recently issued a statement to counsel President Jonathan on the steps to take to win back the support of the people from his zone. He said, “The president must now turn to the South- South to ‘stabilise’ the zone by neutralising the Amaechi threat. This project will take precedence in time and resources and divert the president’s attention from pressing national issues. “Jonathan is the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The peace, prosperity and progress of Nigeria is the real challenge facing the president. What he needs is the ‘friendship and goodwill” of all Nigerians. He should find lieutenants who can turn even potential adversaries to friends and supporters by their performance.” модули joomla 2.5 Read 1033 |
Re: Echoes Of Marginalisation In south-south. by ibide(m): 5:55pm On Mar 03, 2013 |
For sure no urhobo man should vote for that man cause there is no single federal project in hole urhobo land |
Re: Echoes Of Marginalisation In south-south. by GARRIx7(m): 6:07pm On Mar 03, 2013 |
ibide: For sure no urhobo man should vote for that man cause there is no single federal project in hole urhobo land PDP must be voted out of Delta State first, but your Elders are too greedy. They'll receive bottles of Schnapp and Kolanuts from Uduaghan and then they'll sell you out to the PDP again. |
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