Engennis Support Jonathan’s Presidential Bid

The people of Engenni in Ahoada – West Local Government of Rivers State has vowed to support the presidential aspiration of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in the 2011 general election.

HRM (Dr) Carson O.D. Agidah, Okilomuopiri III, Enuedua (Joinkrama) Kingdom, Acting Okilomu-Ibe, Engenni kingdom, made the declaration last week when the campaign outfits of Jonathan, the North-South Coalition for Jonathan/Sambo led by its Rivers State Coordinator, Barr. Godknows Njokwu, paid a courtesy call on him at his palace in Joinkrama.

The Engenni monarch, noted that what the president is enjoying now is an inheritance of a legacy bequeathed onto him by his former boss, Late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, who died earlier this year.

He was of the view that since the mantle of leadership has fallen on him naturally, that he should be given an over-whelming support by Nigerians to continue, saying that he never attended his present position out of personal struggling but divinely.

According to him, it will be suicidal if Jonathan failed in next year’s general election as the president of the federal government adding that the efforts of the nation’s king makers who spotted him from Bayelsa State when he was Deputy Governor would be a futulity.

He has also promised on behalf of Engenni Kingdom to ensure that all votes will count in the area in a bid to support the one man-one vote campaign of President Jonathan.

Earlier, the Rivers State Coordinator of the North-South Coalition for Jonathan, Barr. Godknows Njokwu, has lauded the Engenni Monarch and his people for the support given them, assuring that they would be at the front burner should Jonathan/Sambo succeed next year as president and vice president respectively.

Reuben Okwa