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Nigeria: 'Why We Resisted External Plot to Hijack Bayelsa House'
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Vanguard (Lagos)
9 May 2008
Posted to the web 9 May 2008
Samuel Oyadongha
Lagos
A member of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly yesterday opened up on why the legislators resisted alleged attempts by those considered "external forces" to hijack the structures of the House, insisting that the belief in the need for development in the state and qualities of the former governor would not allow them accept such invasion of the House by external forces.
Speaking in Yenagoa yesterday while receiving members of the Integrated Supporters of Timipre Sylva led by Comrade Nengi James, the House Committee Chairman on Education, Hon. Jonathan Obuebite said though many of those members used by the external forces have shown genuine remorse, the House members resistance during the crisis was to give the former governor confidence to carry on with his developmental ideas for the benefit of the people of the state.
Obuebite, said many of the members were threatened with death but that did not deter them from standing tall against oppressive tendencies of those involved in the grand plot to remove the then Speaker, Werinipre Seibarugu and install their stooge in order to promote the swearing-in of their own as Speaker and later, Acting Governor of the state.
His words, "We were asking why won't they allow the former governor to work. Why won't they allow him succeed. We said 'NO'. First, they came to the House of Assembly to divide us because they felt he had nobody in the House.
We resisted them and came together to give the man confidence and assurance to work. These forces had planned to remove the Speaker and made their own Acting Governor. In fact, they have pre-knowledge of the Court of Appeal judgment.
"Because he has been standing on a solid rock founded by God and we have seen that his fight was through development, it went beyond all of us. Some few persons that worked for Sylva betrayed him but because he is ordained to be a Leader, he excelled. Today, it is the will of God for him to lead Bayelsa State for the next 8 years."
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The lawmaker who called on the youths to support the re-election bid of the former governor against what he called the "plans of the external forces" said his plea for the support of the former governor is not borne out of what he read on the pages of the newspapers but "what he has been able to put on ground in 10 months.
"If he can do that in 10 months, what would he do in 4 years?", he asked.
Earlier in his speech, the Chairman of the group, Integrated Supporters of Timipre Sylva, Comrade Neigi James said the youths, women and men in the state have decided to pitch their tent with the former Governor and have accepted to make necessary sacrifices that would see the end to political struggles in the state.
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