By Anderson Hart
LAGOS MARCH 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Niger Delta Ex warlord and Founder/Leader of kalabari socio-cultural organization,Kengema Unity Forum (KUF)- Ambassador General Sobomabo Jackrich (a.k.a Egberipapa) has vow to relentlessly expend human and material resources to ensure the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan come 2015, describing the project as a not negotiable.
He made the declaration recently when a strong delegation of members from socio-political elitist group of the Kalabari ethnic nationality, Kalika Assembly paid him a courtesy call at his country home in Usokun, Degema Local government Area of Rivers state for formal admission as member of the Kengema Unity Forum.
Congratulating the delegation for their decision, he recalled that over the years, Kengema Unity Forum had been a rallying point for both the Kalabari ethnic nationality and other tribes in the 23 local government area of the state in the sustained campaign for President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan re-election in 2015 and Kalabari Governor come 2015.
Speaking to the delegation with notable personalities person of leader of the group and former commissioner in the state, Hon. Lolo T. Ibieneye, former Asari Toru LGA chairman, Hon. Oseleye Ojuka, former Akuku Toru LGA Boss, Chief Ngo Briggs (a.k.a Akropo) and a Kalabari political Chieftain, Ijuye Dagogo, he said the sustained effort to achieve this objectives can never be extinguished, adding that he was elated that a very strategic Kalabari group like the Kalika Assembly has come to synergize and officially been admitted as KUF member.
He decried the fallen quality of leadership and service delivery in Rivers state, saying all hands must be on deck to change the situation for the better by enthroning a leadership that will be on the same page with the transformational strides of President Goodluck Jonathan.
Jackrich stressed that the quest to ensure the emergence of President Goodluck Jonathan is non-negotiable, if their dream to continue to have a truly democratic, progressive and people oriented leadership is anything to go by.
Jackrich who is also the director general of Network for the Defense of Democracy and Good Governance (NDDGG) pointed out that President Jonathan’s leadership has done tremendously well in boosting virtually every area of the economy in the country, just as he affirmed that no President since the attainment of independence had been able to replicate the transformative efforts of President Goodluck Jonathan.
Speaking on the quest for Kalabari Governor he said, Kalabaris have
paid their dues in enthroning far reaching legacies in the state, adding that this had made it germane that they are peacefully entrusted with the opportunity to mount the saddle of leadership come 2015 through consensus by other ethnic groups in the state.
“We have started talking to other ethnic groups in the 23 LGA’s, while mobilizing our people frontally to join the struggle for President
Jonathan and Kalabari Governor. That is why we are excited over the entry of
Kalika Assembly. To us it is not just a welcome development, but another plus for our continuous agitation,” he said.
It would be recalled that Kengema Unity Forum has been steadily pursuing the cause of the people.