SAN FRANCISCO, May 17, (THEWILL) – A group, the Save Ijaw Nation Group, SING, says it is unfair for Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State to have described the years former president Goodluck Jonathan was in charge of the affairs of the country as “a waste to the Ijaw Nation”.
The group in a statement signed by its Bayelsa State coordinator, Comrade Otobo Osborn described Dickson’s statement as shocking, most unfair and uncharitable, considering that he had all access to demand for a fair deal for Bayelsa State, while Dr. Goodluck Jonathan was the President.
“We are of the opinion, that Governor Dickson is not telling us the real issues he has with former President Jonathan. We also need to remind him, that Dr. Jonathan’s qualities and the good, that his administration attracted to the Ijaw Nation, are more than whatever Governor Dickson may consider as unfair, to the Ijaw Nation,” it said.
SING further expressed sadness that the Bayelsa governor could team up with those who derives pleasure in criticizing and calling Jonathan all sorts of names, just because he is no longer in power.
Stressing that all well-meaning Nigerians appreciates the achivements of the Jonathan’s administration, it reminded Dickson that Jonathan was elected the President of Nigeria, and not President of Ijaw Nation.
The group maintained that the Jonathan government was out to spread its developmental efforts across the length and breadth of the country, a legacy, which it said, still speaks two years after the former president left office.
