PORT HARCOURT — EMANCIPATION seeking
Ogoni ethnic nationality of Rivers State has declared not to support a second
term bid for President Goodluck Jonathan unless the Presidency put a stop to
the blackmail of the state’s leadership under Governor Rotimi Amaechi and that
of Ogoniland as embodied in Senator Magnus Abe.
Making the declaration under the
umbrella of Ogoni Generation Next Project, OGNP, the Ogoni also counted
completion of its deplorable axis of the East-West Road as well as the 11 years
lingering Bodo-Bonny road as preconditions for supporting the President’s
second tenure aspiration.
Facilitator of the group, involving
professionals in diverse business fields and political officeholders, Khadilo
Kabari, while taking the media on a tour of federal roads in Ogoniland,
said: “Enough of the blackmail of Amaechi and his leadership as
anti-President Jonathan and the Niger Delta.
“The leadership of Amaechi,
including Senator Abe as an Ogoni political leader has accorded undivided
support thus far for the Jonathan Presidency from the very beginning.
“It is on record as perhaps the most
supportive among states. It is, therefore, a campaign of calumny taken too far
for jobbers to now smear a leadership that has been so supportive against the
President.
“For the Ogonis, the least the
Presidency could do is to implement the UNEP report to the letter in
alleviating the suffering of people who have given so much but rewarded with
spite and killing of its prominent leaders. Beyond the UNEP report, it is also
imperative that Federal Government reverses its indifference to completion of
the Bodo-Bonny Road and the East West Road, particularly Ogoni axis.”
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