The
Urhobo Youth Initiative Movement has described comments circulating the
Social Media zone about the Urhobo people and Ijaw kinsmen as absurd
and self serving.According to the movement,there is an SMS been
circulated by some people who claim to be speaking for the Urhobos and
making inciting comments about Chief Tompolo and his Kinsmen from Ijaw
Kingdom.Click for more
The
inciting comments peddled on behalf of Delta State are messages
flooding the media and Blogs since the PDP primaries ended,members of
Urhobo Youth Initiative Movement (UYIM) have sent out a statement on the
matter.
In a release signed by Mr. Obaro Akpomiemie for Urhobo Youth Initiative Movement ,he
discribed the said comments as absurd and a grand design by some people
paid to plunge Urhobo nation into hate with her neighbors.
They
observed that the malicious and unholy comments circulated around are
of no importance to Urhobo people but rather self serving antecedents of
disgruntled politicians,who are bent on causing disunity about various
Tribes in Delta.
read the SMS below.
“URHOBO UNITED WAKE UP AND PREPARE FOR THE BATTLES AHEAD! Mr. President mandated Tompolo. Sen.Manager and his Kinsmen to mobilize against our guber candidate David Edewvie. Its in record dat d Urhobo's gv Mr.President more votes than d entire Bayelsa state in d 2011 election. we must unite to ensure dat Mr.President does not win a single ward in our areas. The same Tompolo and his cohorts are acting like pirates in power hijacking and looting by changing names of those who already won their house of assembly primaries @ d PDP secretariat Abj. What a NONSENSE! Mr.President call Tompolo to order, to avoid another round of crisis in delta State. May wise counsel prevail!” – extracts from an SMS broadcast on the 15th Dec 2014
“URHOBO UNITED WAKE UP AND PREPARE FOR THE BATTLES AHEAD! Mr. President mandated Tompolo. Sen.Manager and his Kinsmen to mobilize against our guber candidate David Edewvie. Its in record dat d Urhobo's gv Mr.President more votes than d entire Bayelsa state in d 2011 election. we must unite to ensure dat Mr.President does not win a single ward in our areas. The same Tompolo and his cohorts are acting like pirates in power hijacking and looting by changing names of those who already won their house of assembly primaries @ d PDP secretariat Abj. What a NONSENSE! Mr.President call Tompolo to order, to avoid another round of crisis in delta State. May wise counsel prevail!” – extracts from an SMS broadcast on the 15th Dec 2014
The movement unanimously condemned the authors of this text message and their intentions.
Members
of Urhobo Youth Initiative Movement also reiterated their commitment to
the peace and unity of Delta State ,they also vowed to resist any
attempt by individuals to be used as puns in their grand political
design to destabilize the state, by this they enjoined every indigene of
Urhobo race to ignore the calls and resist any such plans by this group
of persons.
UYIM also reiterated their commitment to ensure that the election will be peaceful and free of any conflict with either Ijaw or Delta North this is because the said groups have supported the Urhobos tremendously while the produced the Governor of the state on two separate occasions.
UYIM also called on Deltans to reject any call of instigating the Urhobos against their Ijaw neighbours ,they commended them for their show of patriotism by not trying to use their closeness to Mr. President to destabilize the state like many would have done by trying to impose an Ijaw man as Governor. They commended all well meaning Deltans mostly Urhobos who have benefited immensely from the support structure of other ethnic groups.
In conclusion,they warned every member of the group to refrain from declaring that the Urhobos will not vote for Mr. President because of political grudges,The Urhobos ,they stated are solidly behind President GoodLuck Jonathan and are fully in support of his Transformation Agenda and the progress and development it has ushered into the country, they vowed to vote massively for him come Feb 14th 2015 and also make sure the group mobilizes strongly to see that all favors enjoyed by Urhobos from Delta North in past elections should also see that Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa is elected the next governor of Delta state come Feb 28, 2015.
UYIM also reiterated their commitment to ensure that the election will be peaceful and free of any conflict with either Ijaw or Delta North this is because the said groups have supported the Urhobos tremendously while the produced the Governor of the state on two separate occasions.
They
urged the Urhobos as a sign of good gesture to support the course of
Delta north neighbors now that it has been bestowed on them to produce
the governor.
UYIM
also condemned the unholy media attack on the person of High Chief
Government Ekpemupolo AKA Tompolo and some of his fellow Ijaw kinsman
Sen. James Manager by a particular so called Urhobo group and described
it as unacceptable and should be discouraged by any reasonable Urhobo
indigene.
In
an election ,they said,everybody has the right to vote for whoever
they want,by going all out to maintain peace and Chief Tompolo and his
kinsmen should be commended for doing the right thing,they insisted,
which is not to impose an Ijaw man with their strength and connection as
the group actually attested to,they encouraged to play fair by
respecting the zoning arrangement of Delta state which actually favors
the Delta North,they described Tompolo and his Kinsmen as true Deltans
who meant well for the peace and unity of Delta state.
UYIM also called on Deltans to reject any call of instigating the Urhobos against their Ijaw neighbours ,they commended them for their show of patriotism by not trying to use their closeness to Mr. President to destabilize the state like many would have done by trying to impose an Ijaw man as Governor. They commended all well meaning Deltans mostly Urhobos who have benefited immensely from the support structure of other ethnic groups.
In conclusion,they warned every member of the group to refrain from declaring that the Urhobos will not vote for Mr. President because of political grudges,The Urhobos ,they stated are solidly behind President GoodLuck Jonathan and are fully in support of his Transformation Agenda and the progress and development it has ushered into the country, they vowed to vote massively for him come Feb 14th 2015 and also make sure the group mobilizes strongly to see that all favors enjoyed by Urhobos from Delta North in past elections should also see that Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa is elected the next governor of Delta state come Feb 28, 2015.
Delta
people have always been a people of Peace and appreciate favors and no
one shall because of his own personal loss shall cause Urhobo nation
into some tribal and hate related conflict situation with other Delta
brothers and sisters.
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