President Jonathan on Friday January 24th Paid a surprise Visit to The Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse 11 in company of Ayo Oritsejafor.
In reaction, the influential Warri Study Group (WSG) an Itsekeri dominant group in Delta State said the president will surely lose the vote of all the ethnic group in the region if he doesn't perform the ground breaking of the N16 billion Export Processing Zone EPZ in Ogidigben before next month General Elections.
Sunday Vanguard reports that the Chairman of WSG, Mr Edwin Okpoko said
“We are amazed that he told the Olu that he would perform the groundbreaking ceremony before the end of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan’s administration. What has the tenure of Uduaghan’s administration got to do with the EPZ groundbreaking, he should not tie it to Uduaghan administration, which is clearly misleading?”
“Our position is that he should do the groundbreaking before the February 14 presidential elections, otherwise, he will lose not just Itsekiri votes, but the votes of other ethnic nationalities in the region, which are angry with his style of doing things
He reiterated that that the EPZ project would create thousands of jobs for unwaged Niger-Deltans and Nigerians, and wondered why a president, who claimed he was concerned about the unemployment problem in the country, would delay the groundbreaking of such a job-spinning project because his Ijaw kinsmen at Gbaramatu kingdom kicked against it.
Ekpoko, who lamented that the groundbreaking had suffered three postponements allegedly in pursuit of “unstainable Ijaw objections/agenda,” said the president has inexplicably ignored the benefits of the projects to other Nigerians.
His words, “The project will be of immense benefits to thousands of youths from Ijaw, Itsekiri, Urhobo, Ibo, Isoko and indeed, other Nigerians facing severe employment and Jonathan should not tie it to his election on February 14.”
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