Political leaders in the North have been urged to give maximum support to the candidature of President Goodluck Jonathan on the platform of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) as a factor of justice and reciprocation of the contributions of the Niger Delta, where the President hails from, to national unity and economic viability of the country.

While describing the Niger Delta as the mainstay of Nigeria’s economy and political ally of the North without commensurate political opportunity, Minister of Information and Communication, Labaran Maku, while speaking with journalists in Lokoja, Kogi State capital during the President Goodluck Jonathan campaign rally on Monday said rather than heat up the polity, northern elders should urge northern candidates to step down for President Jonathan in recognition of the contributions of his region to national development and the continued existence of Nigeria as a nation.

“Niger Delta region, which since about 1960 has been contributing more than 90 per cent of national income; if you go to Niger Delta today, they cannot fish because their rivers are polluted; they cannot go to farm because their environment is polluted. Now they have suffered this pollution and are contributing more than 90 per cent of national income; the salaries you pay in your primary schools teacher and civil servants in Kogi is from Niger Delta.

The salaries that are paid all over the North; in all our schools, our teachers, our civil servants, our traditional rulers, our community leaders are from Niger Delta. What we use to fire development in all the services, 90 per cent is from the Nigeria Delta; if Niger Delta oil stops flowing today, no northern state, with exception of Kano would be able to pay salary for two months and we are saying that their son cannot rule Nigeria or what?


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this is soo true i think they deserve a chance ,, this is the same thing APGA took into consideration , GEJ is not performing but we really need to give the SS a chance at least they will have no more excuses