Ijaw Youth Congress (IYC) have stated that former President Goodluck Jonathan’s five-year Presidency recorded more achievements than the eight-year administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.     

The IYC statement is a response to a former one in which Obasanjo said the South South geo-political zone will forever be haunted by Jonathan's failure.

According to THE NATION, IYC in a press release issued by its spokesperson Mr. Eric Omare, said, ''We make bold to state that former President Jonathan’s five years in office were far better than Obasanjo’s eight years. If Obasanjo has forgotten, we wish to remind him that because of his impunity in rigging elections, President Yar’Adua, on assumption of office, had zero regard in the international community.

''However, President Jonathan has redeemed this badly battered image by reforming the electoral system; elections in Nigeria today are substantially free, fair and credible with the consequent goodwill they have generated for Nigeria in the international community. President Muhammadu Buhari would not have been receiving the highest respect before U.S President Barack Obama, if not for former President Jonathan’s efforts at reforming the electoral system in Nigeria''.

''The Niger Delta region is proud of the achievements of former President Jonathan in office, considering the difficult circumstances he worked. Events in the last few weeks, especially the increased momentum of Boko Haram insurgency in the North, have shown that Jonathan did very well.

''The IYC advises Chief Obasanjo to conduct himself like an elder statesman and stop his grandstanding all over Nigeria by trying to pull down other leaders. Nigeria needs the wise counsel of elder statesmen to pull the country out from the numerous challenges facing it.

''The IYC also decries the gradual slide to dictatorship, as exemplified by the reckless arrest and detention of Nigerians, who served under President Jonathan, like Col. Sambo Dasuki and Felix Obuah without due process. It is illegal and unconstitutional for Obuah and (Dasuki), a former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to President Jonathan, to be detained in an underground cell without access to their family members and lawyers.”