Odi Chiefs Deny Threats To Work Against Jonathan’s Ambition.

B-R-E-A-K-I-N-G News!!! Odi Chiefs Deny Threats To Work Against Jonathan’s Ambition. The Odi Council of Chiefs has flayed some members of the All Progressives Congress over remarks that the community (Odi) planned to scuttle the presidential ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015. The chiefs said APC stalwarts, who made the remarks, did so on their own and did not represent Odi people. During the APC registration recently, a former national youth leader of the then New Peoples Democratic Party, Timi Frank, and other stalwarts of the APC, had lashed out at Jonathan for failing to abide by the court’s judgment, which awarded Odi people N37.6bn compensation for the destruction of their community. Odi, a community in Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, was destroyed in November 1999 by the military on the orders of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. The destruction followed the killing of some policemen by hoodlums allegedly from the community. The APC faithful had said the community had resolved not to vote for Jonathan and the PDP in the coming elections if the compensation was not paid. But in a statement by Odi Council of Chiefs, signed by its Secretary, Chief Gordon Denenu, the chiefs disowned the comments. The statement said, “The attention of the Amananaowei’s Council of Odi has been drawn to a publication titled, ‘We will Scuttle Jonathan’s Ambition,’ in which one Mr. Timi Frank, said to be a prominent citizen of Odi, claimed to be speaking for the people of Odi. “We are not oblivious of the fact that individuals have the right to speak for themselves, as guaranteed by the Nigerian Constitution, but no unconstituted, unauthorised, unknown figure as the APC stalwart, whom we gathered is paternally from Sabagreia, has a right to drag the name of Odi people into disrepute to better his personal political ambition.” The chiefs said they were, therefore, refuting the so-called claim that Frank spoke for Odi people, adding that his utterances should not be taken seriously . - Hope For Nigeria.