A frontline Ijaw leader and a traditional ruler in Okrika. land, High Chief Dele Daniel-Kalio, has declared that those who are out to truncate the second term bid of President Goodluck Jonathan will fail.
Daniel-Kalio, who is the Fuamakiri IV of Okrikaland in Rivers State, said President Jonathan had done a lot to deserve the vote of Nigerians on merit.
The monarch stated this while addressing members of the Yoruba community in Port Harcourt on Wednesday.
He claimed that some people were trying to thwart the President’s second term bid without considering his achievement within the past five years.
According to him, “Some people are out to truncate the second term bid of the first President from Ijaw, the largest group in the country. Anybody who feels that the tenure of a performing President should be truncated should have a change of mind.
“The President has outperformed his predecessors and several people say that the country is safe in his (Jonathan) hands. Some of us have been outspoken on this issue. One has to see how much support he can garner for Mr. President to complete his tenure”.
Daniel-Kalio, however, called on the people of the South-West to vote for Jonathan on Saturday, stressing that the President had always considered the Yoruba in the implementation of his transformation agenda.
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