The Ijaw professionals in Diaspora, a socio-cultural
group dedicated to preservation of Ijaw interest worldwide has cried out against
what it calls a conspiracy to destroy the Ijaw cause through pulling down it
leaders following the loss of the Presidency by President Goodluck Jonathan.
The Group rose from an extraordinary congress at
Atlanta Georgia last week with a resolve to sensitize Ijaw people of this
deadly plot by her enemies to be carried out through her fellow Ijaws, as was
done to the President.
In a statement read out to the Press by its General
Secretary Akpoebi Okrowanta, the group lamented that the loss of the Presidency
was avoidable were the President not betrayed by fellow Ijaws he placed trust
on, warning that such political miscalculation could repeat itself unless the Ijaws
became wary of making similar mistakes by not pulling down the remaining
leadership left to fill the big vacuum existing today.
The group was particularly concerned about attempts to
destroy the stability of the only wholly Ijaw state for narrow political
reasons adding that any attempt to disregard the larger interest of Ijawland in
the new dispensation will quickly erase the giant strides already recorded by
the race especially in Bayelsa State. To this end the group appeals to
politicians to always consider what their actions will do to the overall Ijaw cause
and subordinate their narrow political interests to it.
The group is taking other steps to implement its
resolutions to prevail on Ijaw leaders to work in synergy with others and to
punish offenders by exposing publicly their divisive activities. It set up a five-person
committee to independently investigate allegation against prominent Ijaw leaders
and draw up a code of conduct for leaders.
The group believes that the Ijaw race must not have a
leadership vacuum and believes that the legacy of the outgoing President will
leave for the Ijaw cause was to strengthen up and coming leaders such as
Governor Dickson to play a national role in to mitigate the collapse of the Ijaw
cause. It is to this end that it frowns at the latest attempt by distractors to
tarnish his image so as to make it impossible for the Ijaw race to continue in
its upward progress despite the loss of the presidency.
Already the group has investigated and found untrue
the latest attempt to pull the unblemished name of the leader of the only
purely Ijaw State to the mud by linking him to a spurious claim of
misappropriation of funds with what it claimed as First Bank Chairman as being
distributed in the social media.
We confirmed with the EFCC that no such complaints
have been received contrary to claims that the EFCC was handling the case. With
a fake website, the sponsors which are strangely prominent Ijaw sons did not
consider what the big picture of their action would be but only concentrating
on the immediate perceived political advantage. This is just one of the many
cases we have investigated and if those concerned do not stop this self
destruction, we shall publish their names for the world to see. Once again we
appeal to all well meaning Ijaw people to prevail on their people to work for
stability and progress as a way to ending the unfavourable tide that the enemy
has woven for our people.
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