According to former Bayelsa state governor, Timipre Sylva, president Goodluck Jonathan will only be welcomed in his home village in Otuoke, as he has betrayed and disappointed Niger-Deltans.

In a Punch interview, he said "every Niger Deltan knows and a few people have said it and I don’t want to repeat what others have said. Niger Delta is actually in a worse situation today than we have ever been in our history because we have got nothing from this Presidency. Therefore, Niger Delta people, including myself, feel very betrayed."

According to him Niger Deltans had at first believed in Jonathan but have now withdrawn their support for him because he didn't do anything to develop the area in his 6-year tenure.

He added that Bayelsa State is “the least developed industrially and commercially” of all the 36 states in Nigeria and that president Jonathan will get a hero's welcome only in Otuoke.

"I mean you can’t begrudge him whatever welcome he receives in his village. I don’t want to know, Otuoke is a small, tiny village. He probably would not receive a hero’s welcome in my village or in the larger Bayelsa public, but in his village, whatever welcome he gets, we give it to him. You can’t begrudge him the welcome he would get in his village."