WHY IJAWS MUST UNITE - JP OWOUPELE

As written by Comrade J.P Owoupele.

THE NEED TO CLOSE RANKS IN IJAW LAND AS A STRATEGIC NEED TO ATTAIN MAXIMUM SUSTAINABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT.

When our fore fathers lived the ijaw land they operated peacefully with herself and made appreciable progress. The unity in them afforded them to  progress without any obstacle relatively.  Today we practice a democracy and party politics is an essential element . Thus we have our people divided among different party. Not long ago the PDP had a fair share of government patronage as it produced the President from 1999 till 2015 .

Thus our people who had the opportunity to get some appointments and impacted their societies differently.  The level may be different and may be disputed in  certain cases. But what's paramount is that the majority of our people were aligned to the PDP.

However today, the APC has formed the government and fortunately some of our people who were bold and visionary against the prevailing trend pitched her tent with the party which had relatively less chances of winning the incumbent government of PDP.  But sceptics were proved wrong when the party won the elections and today Buhari is president. 

Today we are fighting everyday over petty party issues instead of hernessing the privilege and get what is due our region state or people.  What is significant  is that whether APC or PDP our people will always be there at the receiving end. We must close rank and support our people in APC while they provide leadership to enable us come up with strategic plan to make IJAWLAND a better place.

While we agree that we are people of different political affiliations and persuasions we must be mindful of the greater dangers of our continued disagreements and political battles. The parties will go as  NPN and UPN.

We must be wise to make good use of this opportunity.  While the party lines will be maintained for the purpose of our striving democracy, this should not stop us from adopting the yorubas approach and get meaningful benefits from the APC led government. 

Let us embrace one another another and adopt civility in our positions. Let us make peace and begin to draw a strategic plan to help ijaw people. Our loses as we keep fighting is enormous  and it will cost us even more if we continue.

While we must  support gov Dickson to make bayelsa a better place let us extend the same support to the leaders of APC and have our most patriotic interest secured. This is strategic to our goals as a Nation of ijaw people. Let us see beyond the things that divde us and strengthen  our relationship  to make a better Ijaw Nation.