Bayelsa group wants Bomo Central to produce assemblyman

Ahead of 2019 elections, the Bomo Central Forum, Southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa state at the weekend, called on the political class in the clan not to undermine its political arrangement in the state polity.
Addressing journalists in Yenagoa, the youths argued that there was need for a ‘give and take’ in the political relationship among the three political blocs of Bomo West, Bomo Central and Bomo East.
The group said the relationship has been cordial until 2015 when some people who were then favoured in the state politics hijacked the unwritten agreement for their selfish and inordinate ambition.
Speaking on the rotation of the Southern Ijaw Constituency 3 seat in the Bayelsa state Assembly, the group led by James Kalasele, posited that Chief Adolphus Ofongo from Bomo West was elected for two terms between 1999 and 2007.
They further averred that their grouse was hinged on equity, justice and fairness, adding that although the Central would have produced the next assembly man after Adolphus Ofongo, but a highly placed government official at the executive then hijacked the process and installed his kinsman, late Hon. Delight Igali, as a flag-bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party.
According to the group, “Daniel Igali would have served a single term to complete the eight years of Bomo East but the state powers wanted him and returned him for a second tenure.” The people therefore called on Governor Seriake Dickson and the PDP to treat Bomo Central people as equal partners in the political relationship among the three blocs and allow them to produce the next occupant of that seat.