Udengs Eradiri, President
of the Ijaw Youth Council, has congratulated General Buhari on his victory at
the just concluded presidential polls. In a statement released on behalf of all
the youths in Ijaw land yesterday April 1st, Mr Eradiri told the Niger Delta youths
to support the President-elect and warned them that ‘If you go and protest, you are on your
own. If you go and destroy anything, you are on your own.’ He said they should not complain as "we are the
architects of our own problems". The statement after the cut...
"I want to use this opportunity to congratulate Gen.
Buhari who has emerged the winner of the presidential election. And so as IYC,
when we had our own as President, the Igbo, the Yoruba, the Hausa were loyal to
him. We will be loyal to the President-elect, Gen. Buhari, who from May
29, 2015 would become the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. We
will accept it (the results of the election). We had our own knife and yam; we
were not able to cut it the way we wanted.
We have no other
person to blame. It is in this part of the country that people ask for money to
go and vote. However, the northerners were paying for their own transportation
to go and exercise their rights and to go and pick their PVCs. Our people were
expecting that they would be paid to collect PVCs and the results reflected so.
We have no other choice; we are the architect of our own problem. So, we should
be able to live with it. If you go and protest, you are on your own. If you go
and destroy anything, you are on your own. I, as the leader of youths in this
region, have reached out to other ethnic nationalities to canvass support.
Maybe, we started
late. Maybe the attention was not given that should have started with the
political class. History has already recorded it. So, the best we can do is to
key into his (Buhari’s) administration, just as the Yoruba and Hausa key into
the administration. It is time for us to also key into the administration. So,
I called on our people to steer clear of all those political manipulations.” he
said
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