Date Published: 03/13/10

Dear Sir,

Jonathan should not listen to South-South Governors or Governors' forum

A report in The PUNCH of Monday February 22, 2010, page 10 had it that the south-south governors in a bid to ensure that they returned for the second term have individually gone to see the acting President Jonathan, pledging to work with him for the success of his tenure. It is belated.

In this group of governors includes two that have been plotting with an ex-governor of one of the south-south states various media and planned pipeline attacks that would showcase Jonathan as incapable. One of those governors was seen recently in the media with the ex-governor on a weekend courtesy call on the NNPC group managing director, Alhaji Barkindo. It will be recalled that the south-south governors did reschedule unending; meeting that would have pretended their group’s position while the logjam in the presidency was in a terrible situation. The Governors Forum still came out with hopeless communiqué to the acting President.

The outgoing Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Most Rev Peter Akinola under a headline “No Cabal Should Be Allowed To Hold Nigeria To Ransom” in the same Punch edition said “When Nigeria starts one problem today, it continues to go round and round. When shall we become a nation with our politics become such that can take the people to the Promised Land. How can we allow members of a cabal that engage in madness of self-preservation to hold the entire nation to ransom?”

Acting President is a capable and requires to be supported by well-meaning Nigerians and at the same time, he knows who the pretenders are.

Itoro Akpabio, Umuahia Road, Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State

a_itoro@yahoo.com