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The Elected Female Local Government Executives and Legislators Forum said the First Lady should be an ambassador of peace.
The leader and spokesperson of the forum, Ms. Maureen Tamuno, who spoke in Port Harcourt, said: “We want to use this medium to tell her that she should preach peace and unite the country. It is these women seated here who moved from door-to-door to mobilise the two million votes her husband got from Rivers State during the 2011 general elections.”
Ms Tamuno, who is also the Chairman of Ogu/Bolo Local Government Area, where Mrs. Jonathan hails from, added: “These women here own the grassroots. I went in helicopter to 19 local governments with Dame Judith Amaechi, wife of the governor to mobilise votes for the president.”
The elected politicians also called for “the immediate transfer of Commissioner of Police Mbu Joseph Mbu as resolved by the National Assembly” adding that peace would return to the state and democracy would thrive immediately after his transfer.
On the continued detention of the House Leader, Chidi Llyod, the women condemned “the way he is being treated like a common criminal, which he is not”.
The forum also condemned the botched attempt by five of the 32 lawmakers of the Assembly to impeach Speaker Otelemaba Dan-Amachree.
They also flayed a statement credited to the Chief Edwin Clark-led Elders of Southsouth Assembly, saying that it was wrong for the elders to be “criticising our performing governor as such does not reflect the wishes of the people of the region because Elder Clark is expected to be a father to all”.
They appealed to Jonathan, the Senate, the House of Representatives and elders to bring peace to the state.
On Amaechi, they said: “He has returned Port Harcourt back to its Garden City status as all public utilities in the metropolis which enemies of the state dishonestly appropriated have all been recovered and transformed to international standards.”
Source: The Nation
Elected female local government officials and lawmakers in Rivers State will write the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, on the political crisis in the state.
The leader and spokesperson of the forum, Ms. Maureen Tamuno, who spoke in Port Harcourt, said: “We want to use this medium to tell her that she should preach peace and unite the country. It is these women seated here who moved from door-to-door to mobilise the two million votes her husband got from Rivers State during the 2011 general elections.”
Ms Tamuno, who is also the Chairman of Ogu/Bolo Local Government Area, where Mrs. Jonathan hails from, added: “These women here own the grassroots. I went in helicopter to 19 local governments with Dame Judith Amaechi, wife of the governor to mobilise votes for the president.”
The elected politicians also called for “the immediate transfer of Commissioner of Police Mbu Joseph Mbu as resolved by the National Assembly” adding that peace would return to the state and democracy would thrive immediately after his transfer.
On the continued detention of the House Leader, Chidi Llyod, the women condemned “the way he is being treated like a common criminal, which he is not”.
The forum also condemned the botched attempt by five of the 32 lawmakers of the Assembly to impeach Speaker Otelemaba Dan-Amachree.
They also flayed a statement credited to the Chief Edwin Clark-led Elders of Southsouth Assembly, saying that it was wrong for the elders to be “criticising our performing governor as such does not reflect the wishes of the people of the region because Elder Clark is expected to be a father to all”.
They appealed to Jonathan, the Senate, the House of Representatives and elders to bring peace to the state.
On Amaechi, they said: “He has returned Port Harcourt back to its Garden City status as all public utilities in the metropolis which enemies of the state dishonestly appropriated have all been recovered and transformed to international standards.”
Source: The Nation
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