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Alamieyeseigha Made Me What I Am, Jonathan Confesses

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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has admitted that former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha who died recently made him what he is today. He stressed that he is indebted to Alamieyeseigha without which nobody would have known him in the world.

The former president who spoke when he paid a condolence visit to the family of Alamieyeseigha at his residence in Opolo, Yenagoa, lamented the sudden death of his political mentor.

Jonathan, who started his political journey by serving as Alamieyeseigha’s deputy from 1999 to 2005, said he was saddened by the unexpected death of his former boss.

He said that his relationship with Alamieyeseigha was not that of a governor and a deputy governor but that of an elder brother and a younger brother, saying: “It is sad. I directly worked as a deputy governor to Alamieyeseigha. I knew Alamieyeseigha during the UNCP days when we were working for him.

“I never knew I was going to be his deputy because that was not my interest then. From that time, the political evolution in the country and the state brought me to work with him.

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“And from 1999, we have been together. He always took me as his younger brother. Our relationship was not that of a governor and a deputy but it was that of a younger brother and an elder brother.”

Those who accompanied Jonathan during his visit were the Governor of the state, Mr. Seriake Dickson, his deputy, John Jonah, Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Edmund Allison-Oguru, other officials of government and elder statesmen.

Alamieyeseigha’s widow, Margaret, on sighting Jonathan broke down in tears and wept uncontrollably. [myad]

 

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