The Governor of Sokoto State and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has disclosed that Bayelsa State Governor, Hon Seriake Dickson, mobilised lawmakers to make former President Goodluck Jonathan, the acting president through the Doctrine of Necessity.
Tambuwal, made the revelation during a condolence visit to the country home of Dickson in Toru Orua, Sagbama Local Government Area of the state. He said that Dickson had approached him in the heat of the tension that followed the incapacitation of former President Umoru Yar’Adua, in 2010, to work out the process that culminated in the emergence of Jonathan as Acting President.A statement by Dickson’s Media office, stated that Tambuwal disclosed that Dickson persuaded him to accept the plan to make Jonathan Acting President in the interest of national unity, which he obliged as the then leader of the North West caucus in the House of Representatives. According to him, the two governors who were both members of the House of Representatives, collaborated to draft the document that paved the way for Jonathan to be made the Acting President of Nigeria.
He stressed that Dickson took advantage of his membership of the National Assembly to play several major roles in stabilizing the country. He said: “God has elevated you to become Attorney General of Bayelsa, then a member of the National Assembly and now Governor of Bayelsa State. And even in the National Assembly, you played several major roles that helped to stabilize this great country. “I remember very well when we had to collaborate with you and work with you to ensure that our dear brother and leader, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was made the Acting President of the Federal Republic òf Nigeria.
“To those of you who may not be aware, my brother and friend approached me being the leader of the North West caucus and said ‘my brother, we have to do this in the national interest’ and I agreed with him. And both of us agreed and drafted that resolution that made Goodluck Jonathan the acting President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. “So it is not today that my brother Dickson and I have been working to stabilize this country. You are a great son of the country; you are a great son of this community, you are a great son of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
.new telegraph
