Delta state Deputy Governor, Barr. Kingsley Otuaro has called on the Ijaw nation and Niger Deltans in particular to imbibe the spirit of forgiveness in pursuing the ideals of the late first civilian governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha, who passed on fortnight ago.
He spoke on Thursday as the official 7-days mourning declared by the Bayelsa State Government in honour of Alamieyesagha ends.
Barr. Otuaro who spoke in a statement signed by his Senior Special Assistant on Communications and Press, Mr. Bulou Kosin said that Alamieyeseigha's life demonstrated courage and resilience of the Ijaw personage which he imposed on the consciousness of the Nigerian political landscape.
He described Alamieyeseigha as a selfless, rare Ijaw leader and national bridge-builder who felt fulfilled in his life time and held no grudges for his travails before bowing out.
"His trail-blazing struggle for resource control and equity in Nigeria led to emergence of his erstwhile Deputy, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, as President who was celestially positioned in time to save Nigeria, our dear nation, from disintegration, Otuaro said.
"Apparently realizing that his imperfections, real and imagined, provided the human dynamics for the believable divine projection of the Ijaw/Niger Delta personage, to the Presidency of Nigeria that was long denied, Alamieyeseigha, the selfless, rare Ijaw leader and national bridge-builder therefore felt fulfilled and hence held no grudges for his travails before bowing out".
"Beyond thriving in conspiracy theories over death of Alamieyeseigha, fondly called the Governor-General of the Ijaw nation, the Ijaw and Niger Delta should render good service to his memory by reflecting spirit of forgiveness for national cohesion and greatness, Otuaro said.
"Barr. Otuaro thinks it is rather time to re-strategize in the struggle for advancing the cause of the Niger Delta within a united and better Nigeria as encapsulated in the historic Kaiama Declaration which is the working document of the Ijaw nation.
"It is for this that Alamieyeseigha and countless Ijaw/Niger Delta youths before him, paid the supreme price", the statement added.
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