‘Only Buhari Can Chair Dialogue On Niger Delta Now’

President Muhammadu Buhari has, once again, been implored to adopt the 2009 dynamics that President Umar Yaradua deployed as template in other to end the armed agitation in the Niger Delta region.

United Niger Delta Energy Development Security Strategy (UNDEDSS), the region’s coalition of ethnic nationalities and civil society in a terse statement signed by UNDEDSS Secretary General, Mr. Tony Iprinye Uranta, urged the Federal Government to adopt the successful Yar’Adua template of 2009.

“UNDEDSS and other leading stakeholders in the region have tirelessly interfaced with very senior members of this administration and given them a detailed template the President should deploy now to resolve this growing insecurity in the region, which is negatively impacting all of Nigeria”, says Uranta.

“In the light of the conflicting statements being made by too many putative representatives of both the region and the Federal Government, it is necessary, however, to state that the Niger Delta is not going to know sustainable peace via the coterie of so-called contact groups or committees. And, that there cannot be any reliable dialogue, between the FGN and the region, without a commitment to Justice and equity by President Buhari himself.”

"The return of Symbols of Gbaramatu traditional worship; and, most importantly, President Buhari addressing the nation to announce that he would personally lead the revival of the 2009 template premised on a Niger Delta Development Committee under his direct supervision, plus grant free passage to all stakeholders he is ready to directly dialogue with.”

They said, “No member of the cluster is an employee of the SPDC either as a management staff, middle manpower or even at the lowest category.“SPDC, from every indication, is not alive to its corporate social responsibility to our cluster.”

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