Bayelsa Group Urges Paulker To Re-Contest

A political group, Bayelsa Central Senatorial Forum, has called on the Senator representing it at the National Assembly, Sen. Emmanuel Paulker, to re-contest the seat in 2011.

The Bayelsa Central Senatorial District, which Paulker represents, comprises Yenagoa, Kolokuma/Opokuma and Southern Ijaw Local Government Areas.

The group while addressing journalists on Saturday in Yenagoa, expressed satisfaction with the performance of Paulker in the Senate.

The spokesman for the group, Mr Ebiowei Jacob, said that Paulker had made modest achievements as a member of the National Assembly, stressing that he had attracted federal projects to the area.

According to Jacob, some of the achievements of Paulker included the provision of scholarship for more than 78 undergraduates.

The empowerment of more than 40 women with sewing machines and distribution of 146 motorcycles to youths in the area.

He said that the Bayelsa Central Senatorial District Forum would collaborate with another socio-political group in the area, “SEPCO”, to mop up public support for Paulker”.

On the controversy over zoning of the presidency, Jacob said that political leaders of the Northern extraction “ought to reciprocate in 2011 elections the total support the South-South had always given to the North in the past”.

He pointed out that President Goodluck Jonathan’s emergence as the President was a divine act to assuage the South-South people over the long years of neglect and political marginalisation.