‘Why South-South must support Jonathan

The success of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s Presidency is a collective responsibility particularly for us, the people of the Niger Delta the Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan said.

A release by the Delta State Government House quoted Uduaghan, while addressing an enlarged meeting of the Executive of the Delta State Elders Council in Warri at the weekend, as saying the success or failure of Jonathan’s Presidency will not be attributed to the President alone.

According to him, as indigenes of the Niger Delta region, states of the South-South geo-political zone have a moral responsibility to support the administration of President Jonathan.

“It is our collective responsibility, not one person’s responsibility, but our collective responsibility as a people of the Niger Delta to give him (President) the maximum support”, he stated.

Uduaghan affirmed that the state administration enjoyed cordial relations with President Jonathan.

He said that contrary to the impressions being created by some persons, the state through the active participation of himself and the National Assembly members from the State, were involved in the emergence of the then Vice President as acting President and President, adding that he remained unruffled by the actions of those painting negative pictures about how the President emerged.

Said he: “I have refused to be pushed away, Mr. President needs the Governor of Delta State and the Governor of Delta State needs Mr. President … I have easy access to Mr. President because Mr. President recognises that I am the Governor of a critical State in Nigeria.”