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S’South Biz Leaders Endorse Jonathan
The Business community in the South-South zone has expressed support for President Goodluck Jonathan to run for the presidency in next year’s election.
The president of the Forum of South-South Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, Mr. Billy Harry, told our correspondent in Port Harcourt that the community wanted him to contest because he was focused.
‘’ The South-South business community is encouraging President Jonathan to contest next year’s election because we have seen a man that is focused and is willing to take a well thought-out plan to solve the problems of the nation.’’ he said.
Harry said that Jonathan had taken time to brainstorm and get answers to some problems facing the nation, instead of adopting half baked solutions to such problems.
The chamber boss said that Jonathan had used such method to tackle incessant fuel scarcity in the country.
“We do encourage him to contest because we have seen a level-headed man that his thinking is thorough”, he said.
Harry, who is also, the National Vice President of the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture urged the President to remain focused if he won the election next year.
‘’My advice to him if he wins the election is to remain focused in taking Nigeria bit by bit and get to the roots of all problems facing the nation.
‘’ Such issues as corruption, the Niger Delta, power and others, there should be a focus in tackling these problems and not ad hoc solutions. Ad hoc solutions we tried in the last 50 years have not helped us.
‘’If he gets in there with support of all Nigerians ,he should be focused in leading the country out of the doldrums’’ he said.
Meanwhile, Mr Udengs Eradiri, former Secretary-General of Ijaw Youths Congress has pledged to pay attention to capacity building for youths if elected as a federal lawmaker next year.
Eradiri is a House of Representatives aspirant for the Kolokuma Opokuma/and Yenagoa federal constituency.
He told newsmen in Port Harcourt that the highest socio-cultural body in his area had given him the green light to contest and represent them at the federal level next year.
‘’ If we are able to build the capacity of our people, they can come back and build new projects for the community. We will give our people proper education that will give them the capacity to function in any part of the world,’’ he said.
He said if elected, he would introduce a scholarship programme that would take youths to the best schools in Nigeria and abroad to make them more relevant when they were back.
Eradiri said the scholarship would be for graduates and under graduates to encourage specialisation in various skills and trade.
He said that as a youth activist, it would be proper to get elected into the National Assembly to make laws that would impact positively on the people of Niger Delta.
‘’ We abhor violence and crisis. The best way to solve our problem is to get elected and make laws that will favour our people and bring them out of poverty and marginalisation’’ he said.
He urged other youth leaders to seek the mandate of their people and get elected into legislative posts to make laws that would change their lives instead of resorting to use of force or violence to seek redress.
‘’ That era is gone and we need to use democratic means to fight for our rights this time’’ he said.
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