My Father’s Agitation Paved Way For Jonathan’s Presidency

[Shola Sholaz]

THE late one time governor of Rivers State, Chief Melford Okilo might have died as a fulfilled man following the revelation that his agitation for a Nigerian president of South-South extraction paved the way for the emergence of President Goodluck Jonathan.
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The daughter of the late former Governor of Rivers State and United States-based Attorney, Dr. Eluana Okilo who disclosed this yesterday in Abuja said that her father was a bridge-builder whose efforts in uniting the country was instrumental to the emergence of President Jonathan from the minority part of the country.
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Describing her father as a great nationalist, Dr. Okilo said the former Rivers State Chief executive died a happy man because even on his sick bed, he was fulfilled that his dreams for a minority President was fulfilled with Jonathan's Presidency.
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The US-based Attorney who is a member of the Steering Committee of Melford Okilo Foundation in a press briefing to herald the public presentation of a book entitled – "Okilo: Biography of a Bridge Builder" written by a civil rights activist, Mr. Marshall Okon and a fund raising for Chief Melford Okilo Centre called on Nigerians to support the President in his transformation agenda.