S’South Leaders Condemn Airport Deployment of Soldiers …Threaten Secession

The South-South forum has condemned the deployment of soldiers to the airport without authority and knowledge of the Acting President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan. Making their feeling known in a press conference in Abuja yesterday, the forum said that the action is unconstitutional and amounted to a treasonable offence.
The forum also questioned the authority of the Senior Special Assistant to the President, Olusegun Adeniyi to make statements for the president, saying that until the National Assembly received a letter that the president is back, such communication should be stopped forthwith. The forum said only the president’s broadcast is acceptable and not a statement from cabals. Speaking on behalf of the forum, Chief Edwin Clerk said we say that if Mr President who has been sick for three months and away from his own country arrives, Nigerians must know. Imagine that the Acting President of this country is not on the  know of his coming and even after his arrival no body briefed him, this is a very great concern to Nigerians.
According to Chief Clerk, no wonder the America Embassy made a statement on the same issue. “ we believe that those responsible for the movement of the president’s arrival and his movement to the  villa have their own agenda which is not in the interest of Nigeria, he said.
In a communiqué, the group said it believed in the oneness and unity of Nigerian which we have fought for and which we are part of. The Nigerian constitution is what binds us together.  The forum added that if state affairs continues in this murky manner, the South-South would have no option than to break away from Nigeria.
It would be recalled that President Yar’Adua arrived the country yesterday morning after his discharge by medical experts overseeing his health in Saudi Arabia.
The president’s Special Adviser on media and Publicity, Mr Olusegun Adeniyi who confirmed the return of Yar’Adua thanked the Acting President, Jonathan, members of the National Assembly and other organs of government for holding the fort in his absence and Nigerians in general for their prayers for his recovery.