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By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa
Concerned Eiders of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area have sent a Save our Soul message to the Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, and the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to intervene and maintain the zoning of the local government chairmanship position among constituencies in the area.
A statement signed by the chairman of the forum, Elder Opukiri Noel (Constituency 2), secretary, Dr. kirigbolo Damateidei (Constituency 3), and the spokesman, Engr. Timipadei Diton (Constituency 1), claimed that they are privy to a plot “hatched by some self-seeking interest groups to impose a brother of General Amagbein, who is from Constituency 3, as chairman of Southern Ijaw Local Government Council.”
The elders said that Southern Ijaw Local Government Area (SILGA) is one of leading local councils in the state and should not be entrusted into the hands of “a man with no record of relevant educational qualification, experience and bereft of ideas of management of council administration.”
The concerned elders noted that the present Southern Ijaw Local Government chairman, Chief Nigeria Kia Ebidoughebofa, is from Constituency 3, adding that it will amount to injustice to allow someone from same locality to succeed him.
They stressed that it is the turn of Constituency 1 and 2 to produce the next chairman and advised those putting pressure on Governor Diri to toe the path of honour in order not to over-heat the polity.
The elders urged Governor Diri not to succumb to pressures from people close to him with vested interest to destroy the age long zoning arrangement that have brought peace, unity, stability and given the people sense of belonging in the area, while stating that Southern Ijaw Local Government is in dire need of a credible and responsible leader with relevant educational qualification, experience with proven integrity to become the next chairman.
