Skip to main content

NOON COMMITMENT TO NIGER DELTA DEVELOPMENT :INC FLAYS BUHARI



...SAYS RULING PARTY SHOWING INSENSITIVITY AND DISREGARDS FOR THE FEELINGS OF NIGER DELTA.
                           
IJAW NATIONAL LEADER, CHIEF E.K CLARK


Pan Ijaw Socio-cultiral organization, Ijaw National Congress, (INC) on Thursday condemned President Muhammadu Buhari over his non commitment to the development of the Niger Delta region.

The organization said unlike other Presidential aspirants, the President has no plan to restructure Nigeria, adding that he is only paying a lip service to the calls by eminent Nigerians.

This was made known at the end of its meeting which had in attendance eminent Ijaw sons and daughters in Yenagoa on Thursday.

The meeting which was chaired by its Chairman, Steering committee, Prof. Joseph Ajierika stressed the need for restructuring the Country for the purpose of peace, harmony, equity, fairness and Justice.

The APC, according to the organization has made very scant comments with regards to the question of restructuring throughout it's campaign even when the party's committee on restructuring led by the Governor of Kaduna state, Malam Nasir El Rufai submitted it's report in September 2017 without implementation.

Additionally,the INC noted that to underscore its disregard  for the Ijaws and other peoples of the Niger Delta which was recently demonstrated again when the President  on Monday presided over a ceremony in Aso Presidential Villa where a $30b special development fund agreement between the FG, World Bank, African Development Bank,  Afriexim bank  for 3 special development zones for the proposed country's industrial development zone was unveiled covering Lekki in the South West, Aba in the South East and Funtua in the North to the exclusion of the Niger Delta zone from where the counterpart funds needed by  Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority would be derived.

Rather than taking a critical look at the issue, President Buhari stated during his recent visit to Bayelsa that the present Nigerian Constitution which gives Kano 44 LGAs and Bayelsa 8 LGAs was perfect since both States have three senators each.

The ruling party, according to INC, has continued to show great insensitivity and disregards for the feelings of the Ijaw people despite enormous contribution to the socio economic growth of the Country.

However, the candidate of the PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar had in the past and throughout his campaign restated his belief and commitment to restructuring the Country. His views and blueprint on the matter have also been sufficiently articulated.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Ondo Bye-election: Aspirant Promises Quality* *Representation

. A Chieftain of the Peoples Democracy Party, (PDP), and a leading aspirant in the forthcoming House of Representatives bye-election for Akure South/North Federal Constituency, Barrister Olumuyiwa Adu, yesterday, said the federal constituency would receive premium quality and enlightened representation if given the ticket to fly the party’s flag for the bye-election. Adu who made this statement while addressing a group of youths in the party, said quality representation is key to the development of any constituency and would do everything possible to build on the legacy of late Hon. Dayo Omolafe popularly called Expensive. Omolafe was a Member of the Federal House Of Representatives who represented Akure South /North at the lower chamber of the National Assembly. He was buried last month after a brief illness and the seat was declared vacant by the Independent National Electoral Commision,INEC. According to him, his new deal promise, which he said is a transformation mission wa...
Post a Comment
Read more

OPINION: Politicising Tragedy

 The sad occurrence of the collapse of a 21 storey building in Lagos was a monumental disaster. Certainly the loss of more than 20 lives up to-date is a painful human tragedy. All attention must be focussed on what happened, why it happened and how can future occurrences be prevented all together!. Governor Babajide Sanwoolu, as usual of him, immediately rose to the occasion. Cut short his schedule official engagement in Rome and went to the venue straight from the airport. Even before his arrival the General Manager in charge was immediately sent on compulsory leave. Within 24hrs the governor has visited the site and the surviving victims about twice and a technical enquiry committee of capable and highly credible professionals has been put in place to unravel whatever happened and to advice government appropriately on issues including that of culpability, negligence and possible acts of criminality. It is widely reported that the number of floors constructed was far in exces...
Post a Comment
Read more

Gov Sule of Nasarawa state visits Olam Multimillion dollar farm and Mill in Rukubi

 The Nasarawa State Governor, Abdulahi Sule has visited the Olam Multimillion dollar Rice Farm and Mill in Rukubi Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. Speaking while making his welcome remarks, Mr. Anil Nair, Senior Vice President and Head of Olam Rice Business, a $140million investment said, it gave him great pleasure and a rare privilege to welcome the Executive Governor of Nasarawa State to Olam Integrated Rice Farm despite his tight schedule. Governor Abdulahi Sule and Mr.Anil Nair, Senior Vice president and Head of Rice Business, a $140 million investment in Nasarawa State  He thanked the governor on behalf of the entire Management Team of the Farm, for the interest he has shown for the activities of Olam Business in Nasarawa State and said this goes to show the level of the governor's passion towards the development of Nasarawa State Economy.   The Olam Vice President, Mr. Anil Nair, noted that the governor's visit yesterday, 2nd of November, couldn’...
Post a Comment
Read more