Ijaw youths on Friday expressed their displeasure with the controversial letter written to President Goodluck Jonathan by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
The youths under the aegis of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) accused Obasanjo of heating up the polity with his letter and alleged that the former President crafted his letter in bad faith.
The aggrieved youths said that the series of attacks against Jonathan could destroy the country.
President of the IYC, Udengs Eradiri, who addressed journalists in Yenagoa asked Obasanjo to evaluate himself before making provocative and spurious comments.
He said Obasanjo was wrong to have associated Jonathan with violence, adding that it was not in the character of Ijaw people to take delight in killing people.
Eradiri said Obasanjo wrote out of deep-seated animosity, claiming that the ex-President was determined to pull Jonathan down.
He said: “In this country, leaders who see that others will surpass them; they will decide to drag him down and that is what is playing out in the case of Obasanjo’s letter to Jonathan.
“The achievements that Jonathan has put on the table will be difficult for any other president to surpass in the country. But he is a man who does not know how to blow his trumpet.”
He said no amount of campaign of calumny would stop Jonathan’s re-election bid in 2015.
He said the President should be allowed to enjoy second term in office like his predecessors, including Obasanjo.
source: nigerianeye
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