2015: No blackmail can stop Jonathan –IYC warns Northern Elders

The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) has declared that no amount of blackmail would stop President Goodluck Jonathan from contesting the 2015 presidential election. The council’s spokesman, Eric Omare, said recent comments by some northern elders over the insurgency in the zone were  clear indication that the crisis was being fuelled by Northern elements to discredit the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan.

According to IYC, it was an act of desperation on the part of northern elements to insist  that President Jonathan should not contest the 2015 presidential election if he failed to  produce the kidnapped Chibok girls.

The IYC advised the Northern elders to borrow a leaf from Niger Delta leaders, who went to the creeks to mediate between Niger Delta agitators and the Federal Government.

Omare said: “By this publication, the Northern Elders have confirmed the consistent position of the IYC and other well meaning Nigerians that the insurgency in the North is being fuelled by politicians and some leaders of northern extraction like members of the Northern Elders Forum, to discredit the government of President Jonathan, so as to make his candidature unpopular in 2015.

“The IYC regards this as unpatriotic and the height of desperation for power by some northern leaders and call for their immediate arrest for fuelling insurgency in the North.

“The IYC wish to state clearly, that no amount of blackmail by some northern leaders through insurgency or any other means would stop President Jonathan from seeking a second term in office in line with the 1999 Constitution. Jonathan’s second term in office is the right of the Niger Delta people. The Northern Elders Forum lacks the moral justification to blame President Jonathan for the insurgency in the North. What have they (the Elders of the North) done to tame the insurgency rather than fuelling it?

The IYC urged the security agencies to arrest members of the Northern Elders Forum for their alleged role in promoting insurgency in the North.

SOURCE; http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=77073