…Drums support for transformation agenda

BY SAMUEL OYADONGHA

Yenagoa—Bayelsa State Governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson, weekend berated critics of President Goodluck Jonathan over alleged leadership failure, arguing that Nigeria’s political woes and security challenges predates the current administration.

The governor solicited the support of the various professional bodies and political class to enable President Jonathan achieve his lofty ambition of transforming the country.
Dickson, at a one-day summit organised by the Nigerian Young Professionals, said that the problem started accumulating right from the foundation days of the country.

He added that rather than castigate the person of Mr. President, he should be commended for mustering the needed political will to address the myriad of challenges facing the nation.

Speaking through his Principal Executive Secretary, Douye Diri, the governor said that as a group of professionals, they owed the country a duty of setting an economic agenda aimed at repositioning the country in line with the current administration’s transformation agenda.

Amalgamation of the Northern and Southern protectorates in 1914, according to the governor, was not a mistake, rather, people should see it as a platform to promote unity, oneness and equity as it was the only way to move the nation’s forward.