Former President Goodluck Jonathan broke down in tears on Friday as he visited the Yenagoa home of late ex-Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief DSP Alamieyeseigha..
In an emotion laden voice, Jonathan pledged his indebtedness to the late Governor - General of Ijaw land without whom he said the world would not have known about him.
Jonathan said that by the death of Alamieyeseigha whom he served as Deputy Governor from 1999 to 2005, he had lost an elder brother.
His words ;
“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.
“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.”
Jonathan was accompanied on the condolence visit by Bayelsa State Governor Mr. Seriake Dickson, his deputy, John Jonah, Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Edmund Allison-Oguru and other government officials and elder statesmen.
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