Members of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly
are at daggers’ drawn with their Speaker, Mr.
Kombowei Benson, over statement credited to him
against President Goodluck Jonathan.
The lawmakers were said to have expressed their
displeasure to the speaker for making what they
described as “degrading and inciting” comments
against the President.
The angry lawmakers were said to have held series
of secret meetings in Yenagoa where they
discussed and condemned the speaker’s tirade
against President Jonathan in an interview he
granted a regional tabloid.
The Nation gathered on Wednesday that they were
agitated that the speaker made statements
suggesting that President Jonathan was plotting to
impose candidates on members of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) in the state’s party
primaries.
They were said to have disassociated themselves
from the offensive comments saying, “the speaker
is on his own.”
It was gathered that the aggrieved lawmakers
further frowned at the speaker’s verbal tirade
against the Senator representing Bayelsa Central
Senatorial District, Mr. Emmanuel Paulker.
One of the lawmakers who attended the meeting
said the speaker goofed for joining voices with
persons who were bent in bringing down Mr.
President.
The lawmaker who pleaded anonymity said as a
speaker of the House in President’s state, Benson
was expected to galvanise support for the
President instead of making enemies for him.
“We are not happy with the disposition of the
speaker and we have resolved in our meetings that
he should retract every statement he made against
Mr. President.
“President Jonathan has full support of all the
constituencies in the state including the
constituency of the speaker. Jonathan was once a
deputy governor and a governor in this state, so
he has large following.
“The evidence of this following was recently
demonstrated in the state when his wife, Dame
Patience, visited Yenagoa,” he said.
source: THE NATION

South south people has issues of low mentality, sentimental issues and never true to themselves.

I was here

Demdem:


U are not far from the truth.
Why should it be a must that all south south must agree or support Jonathan. A fool that failed miserably as governor. Why can't one have his own mind regardless what Jonathan think?

are you from south south, u speaks like street urchins

So once you disagree with the position of the President as a SS native......you become an outcast?

Most everybody sleep facing the same side?

my brother my brother will put this country to death.
say d truth in respect of who is involve.
support change not tribe for election

This is the bunch of imbec1les elected to represent the people, every Bayelsans must support the President because he is from the State even if he is planning to sell Nigeria.

slimfit1:
South south people has issues of low mentality, sentimental issues and never true to themselves.

You can't just lump up an entire people like this. It is inappropriate.

@Topic: Whatever floats their goats. None of my business.

omenka:
You can't just lump up an entire people like this. It is inappropriate.

@Topic: Whatever floats their goats. None of my business.

Thanks sir true say apologise sir.

ilugunboy:
So once you disagree with the position of the President as a SS native......you become an outcast?

Most everybody sleep facing the same side?

That is what I don't understand about this government honestly. It is absolutely intolerant of dissension especially from the SS. When Obj was the president, his strongest opposition came from his own people and we never had all these "you are a traitor" rhetoric.

The beauty of democracy lies in the accommodation of dissension and opposition. Someone should beat that into these guys' heads.

denko:
are you from south south, u speaks like street urchins

exactly..

omenka:
That is what I don't understand about this government honestly. It is absolutely intolerant of dissension especially from the SS. When Obj was the president, his strongest opposition came from his own people and we never had all these "you are a traitor" rhetoric.

The beauty of democracy lies in the accommodation of dissension. Someone should beat that into these guys' heads.

What such behavior portrays is a group of people living in the stone-age....very undeveloped politically.

slimfit1:


Thanks sir true say apologise sir.

Lol. No hard feelings bro. Our tempers run very high around here sometimes, I'm also guilty of throwing courtesy to the wind in the comments I make every once in a while, but as much as we can, let's try to be circumspect and excise some modesty.

Shalom.

Funny the Tinubu paper never told us what the speaker said, or did I miss something?

“We are not happy with the disposition of the speaker and we have resolved in our meetings that he should retract every statement he made against Mr. President.

So what happens to him if he fails/refuses to retract? Will he be impeached?

omenka:
That is what I don't understand about this government honestly. It is absolutely intolerant of dissension especially from the SS. When Obj was the president, his strongest opposition came from his own people and we never had all these "you are a traitor" rhetoric.

The beauty of democracy lies in the accommodation of dissension and opposition. Someone should beat that into these guys' heads.

why did d southwest voted 4 obj in 2003 and nt 4 Buhari?