IYC SEC.GEN. REJECTS SUSPENSION
Maobuye
Nangi Obu, the Secretary-General of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) rejected his suspension by some members of the council’s executive committee led by Jonathan Lokpobiri, the world wide President of the IYC.
President Lokpobiri’s executive announced the auspension of Obu after blaming him for the bloodshed that marred the IYC Eastern zonal election at Abuloma in Port Harcourt city last weekend where it was feared about 12 Ijaw youths lost their lives and many others severely injured.
However, Obu briefed journalists on Thursday rejecting his suspension as dead on arrival explaining that Lokpobiri and his executives had no constitutional rights to remove him describing them as enemies of the state.
He stated: “They have no right to sit and suspend me because I am not an employee of Jonathan Lokpobiri. Our constitution does not give them such latitude.”
He went on to describe the killing of prominent Ijaw Youths during the election as unfortunate, terrible and avoidable blaming the bloodbath on Lokpobiri’s alleged meddlesomeness and an attempt to impose candidates.
He added that, “Jonathan Lokpobiri is acting as a stooge to hand over the structure of IYC Eastern Zone to the FCT Minister. They came to the Eastern Zone to install the candidate of their choice. We resisted it.
We told Jonathan Lokpobiri that he cannot come from the central zone and decide for Kalabari people who should be their leader”.
He stated ” Jonathan Lokpobiri was deeply involved in the war against Governor Siminialayi Fubara, who deservedls the IYC protection being an Ijaw Governor.”
He noted that the election was formally scheduled to hold in Opobo, but that Lokpobiri discovering he could not implement his wish unilaterally cancelled it witjout consulting with the organizers and declared that the election should hold in Avuloma on September 14th instead.
He said: “His grouse against me is that we discovered that he has been fraudulent. He went against the Constitution of the IYC to create an account with the Globus Bank, foreign and naira accounts.
He is using a young man to siphon the money. When they send money to the IYC account, Jonathan transfers the money to his personal account and this is against the Article 7 of the IYC constitution, the Constitution makes it mandatory that the President, Secretary-General or the Treasurer should sign the account of IYC but the President operates this account all by himself.
We are not just accusing only the President, let Globus Bank print all the financial transactions to see the sources of the money and where they are going to” he concluded.
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