South South Leaders Not Happy With President Jonathan, Plan To Meet With Him To Advice Him On How To Build Infrastructures And Win The Next Elections

                                    

Curled from Vanguard newspaper reports

A high-powered delegation of South-South leaders is to meet with President Goodluck Jonathan, soon to advise him to fast-track the provision of tangible development infrastructure and social amenities across the six geo-political zones of the country, between now and next elections. Vanguard newspaper revealed that a leader of the of the region who does not want his name mentioned has said that  “It is true that a delegation of South-South leaders will meet with President Jonathan. This was agreed at our Warri meeting, but it is not
 going to be a jamboree, it is just some few leaders to tell him some home truths.
“As a region, I cannot honestly tell you that we are satisfied with his performance so far, but we can see that he is being distracted by Boko Haram and other things. So, we want him to be focused because there is no time.
‘If he fails…’
“He is carrying the aspiration of the entire South-South on his head and we do not want him to fail. If he fails, the entire region has failed. That is how we see it and he only has next year and 2014 to prove his detractors wrong.
“We are going to tell him the facts as they are on ground and give him a quick-win blueprint.”

In a communiqué by the national leader of the region, Chief Edwin Clark, SSPA National Chair, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun and National Secretary, Chief Ayakeme Whisky, the leaders noted that President Jonathan had not delivered on his mandate, even to his people.

They said: “Contrary to the views held by some misguided Nigerians, President Jonathan, since his assumption of office, in trying to satisfy the totality of his Nigerian constituency, had not given to the South-South zone the normal fruits of their son being in power.
“Even the East-West Road, which is the route for the haulage of heavy duty equipment and petroleum products, on a daily basis, to service the oil and gas industry, has not received any priority attention.
“By the principle of affirmative action, he owes the people of the South-South zone the sacred duty of economic empowerment, especially through the petroleum industry, which derives mainly from the zone with all its attendant hazardous effects.”