The Ijaw professionals in the diaspora, a socio-cultural group dedicated to the preservation of the Ijaw interest worldwide, has cried out against what it calls a conspiracy to destroy the Ijaw course, through the pulling down of its leaders, following the loss of the Presidency by Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. The Group rose from an extraordinary congress in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States, last week with a resolve to sensitize Ijaw people of this deadly plot by her enemies, to be carried out, by using fellow Ijaws as was done to the President.
In a statement read out to the Press
by its General Secretary, Mr. Akpoebi Okrowanta, the group lamented that, the
loss of the Presidency was avoidable, if the President was not betrayed by some
of his fellow Ijaws he trusted, warning that, such political miscalculations
could repeat themselves, if they were not careful.
The Ijaws must void making similar
mistakes by not pulling down its leaders, who can fill the big leadership
vacuum existing today.The group was particularly,
concerned about attempts to destroy the stability of the only homogeneous Ijaw State for narrow political reasons, adding that, any attempt to disregard the
larger interest of Ijaw Nation in the new dispensation will quickly erase the
giant strides already recorded by the Ijaw race, especially in Bayelsa State.
To this end the group appeals to
politicians to always consider what their actions will do to the overall
wellbeing of the Ijaw cause and subordinate their narrow political interests to
it.
The group is taking other steps to
implement its resolutions to prevail on Ijaw leaders to work in synergy with
others and to punish offenders by exposing publicly their divisive activities.It has set up a five-person
committee to independently investigate allegations against prominent Ijaw
leaders and draw up a code of conduct for all its leaders.
The group believes that, the Ijaw
race must not have a leadership vacuum at a critical moment like this and
believes that the legacy of the outgoing President, should strengthen Ijaw
cause as well as strengthen and empower up and coming leaders, such as Governor
Dickson to play a more nationalistic role and to mitigate the collapse of the
Ijaw cause.
It is to this end that, it frowns at
the latest attempt by some detractors to tarnish his image, so as to make it
impossible for the Ijaw race to continue in its upward progress, despite the
loss of the presidency. Already the group has investigated
and found to be untrue, the latest attempts to destroy the unblemished record
of performance of the leader of the only purely homogeneous Ijaw State to the
mud by linking him to a spuriuos claim of misappropriation of funds with what
it claimed as a First Bank Chairman, as being distributed in the social media.
We confirmed with the EFCC, that no
such complaints have been received contrary to claims that the EFCC was
handling the case.With a fake website, the sponsors,
who are strangely prominent Ijaw sons did not consider what the big picture of
their action would be, but only concentrating on the immediately perceived
political advantage.
This is just one of the many cases
we have investigated and if those concerned does not stop this self
destruction, we shall publish their names for the world to see. Once again we appeal to all well
meaning Ijaw people to prevail on the larger Ijaw community to work for their
collective stability and progress as a way to ending the unfavourable tide that
the enemy has woven for our people.
Signed:
1.Terry Leandon
2. Akpoebi Okorowanta
3. Sunny Engi
Ijaw Professionals in
Diaspora,Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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