Written by Soji Ajibola, Yenagoa Thursday, 10 June 2010
THE Bayelsa State government has given President Goodluck Jonathan the mandate to contest the 2011 presidential election.
Also, the immediate past chairman of Ekeremor Local Government Area of the state, Mr Robinson Etolor, has described at unconstitutional, the idea of zoning formula, adding that what happened in 1999 was not zoning but a round table agreement on the need to appease the people of the South-West.
Speaking the minds of the people of the state, Governor Timipre Sylva mandated President Jonathan to contest the 2011 election, saying that “you have our support, go and run.”
He added that “President Jonathan has proved himself as capable of leading the country. His antecedent as the governor of the oil rich Bayelsa State in terms of his numerous achievements and his stint as acting president was a living testimony.”
Speaking in the same vein, Etolor stressed the needs for Jonathan to contest the election, adding that this would afford him the opportunity to implement the seven-point agenda.
Etolor said the death of former President Umaru Yar’Adua should not be a premise to jettison his good ideas to transform the country, adding that this assignment could only be carried out by President Jonathan, since, according to him, they conceived the idea together.
Going by the constitution of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), he said the late President Yar’Adua’s term would be completed in 2015, adding that now that he was no more, President Jonathan should be allowed to complete his term.
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