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By Kazeem Ibrahym
A group, Grassroots Mobilisers for Buhari (GMB),
has given 15 reasons why Akwa Ibom State should not and will not vote for
President Goodluck Jonathan in the March 28 presidential elections.
The group, in a statement yesterday signed by its
Akwa Ibom State Coordinator, Amb. Aniefiok Brownson and its Secretary, Ukpong
Emem, said no single federal project was established in Akwa Ibom in the six
years that President Jonathan presided over affairs of the country.
They also explained that all federal roads
linking Akwa Ibom with neighbouring states, such as Cross River, Abia and
Rivers states had broken down while President Jonathan and his Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) paid no attention to the plight of Akwa Ibom people.
The group also slammed President Jonathan for
ignoring and neglecting the Maritime Academy of Nigeria, Oron, despite being
the first and the only federal-owned maritime school in Nigeria, and instead
did a ground-breaking for a maritime university in Delta State.
They said: “Nothing exemplifies the disrespect
Goodluck Jonathan has for Akwa Ibom people more than the ill-treatment he gave
to the aggrieved PDP governorship aspirants, popularly known as G22 in Akwa
Ibom State.
“President Jonathan sent a powerful PDP delegation
led by Vice President Namadi Sambo to Lagos State to placate a failed PDP
governorship aspirant Musiliu Obanikoro, who refused to accept the outcome of
the PDP primaries in Lagos State.
“The same Goodluck Jonathan and the national
leadership of PDP deliberately refused to meet with our own G22 just because
they are from Akwa Ibom State which in Jonathan’s estimation does not deserve
any respect.
‘’Today, just to please Obanikoro, President
Jonathan has nominated him for a ministerial appointment. But in the case of
Akwa Ibom State, the G22 didn’t even get a mention, a mere mention, from
Jonathan when the President came to campign in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state.”
The group also lamented that President Jonathan’s
politics of exclusion had greatly reduced the respect and influence of great
Akwa Ibom politicians like Chief Don Etiebet and Obong Victor Attah within PDP
and unfortunately denied our state a voice at the national politics.
Culled from
The Nation newspaper
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