UGHELLI—A pressure group,
Grassroots Coalition, on
tuesday issued a statement by its
National President and
Secretary, Comrade Gabriel
Akpude and Comrade Levi
Okoronkwo, said: “The Arewa
consultative forum as an opposition to Mr. President and cannot tell him not to contest in 2015 “The same Arewa Consultative
Forum and Northern Elders
Forum, are
using both local and
international media on why Dr
Goodluck Jonathan should not
run in 2015″. “Both organisations are still
deluding themselves that the
North is divinely ordained to
produce the President of
Nigeria as quoted in the
media.”“We shall unfold to Nigerians
in graphical details who and
how the Nigerian ship of state
was sunk from October 1, 1960
till date. “If the giant strides being
made by the Jonathan
administration is sending cold
shivers down the spine of the
Arewa Consultative Forum, the
Northern Elders Forum and the recently registered APC; they
should go-hang or simply get
drowned in Lagos lagoon. “President
Goodluck Ebele Azikwe
Jonathan derived his mandate
from the good, peace loving
people of Nigeria in a
democratically, free, and fair election that was not annulled
as was done by one of their
leaders. So, his agreement is
between the Nigerian people
and not any sectional or
regional body. “Let the Arewa and their
cohorts be warned that after
the Jonathan’s Presidency
come 2015 – 2019, the baton
will be handed over to the
“Igbos for another eight years before the baton goes to the
middle belt, the so-called
minorities of the North, known
to be the willing tools doing
the dirty bidding of their
Arewa overlordship,” the group said.