Tension as Niger Delta group issues stern warning to Buhari
– Niger Delta group accuses President Buhari of playing with Nigeria’s future
– Buhari is advised to personally and visibly head a holistic solution-seeking strategy that will prove his commitment to a robustly sustainable peace in the region
– The group urges Buhari administration to return to the successful Yar’Adua template of 2009
A Niger Delta group, United Niger Delta Energy Development Security Strategy (UNDEDSS) on Thursday, June 30, accused the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government of playing with the nation’s unity and future, Vanguard reports.
This was disclosed by Tony Uranta, the group secretary general in a statement made available to newsmen.
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Uranta said: “The Niger Delta has unanimously resolved to resist any further attempts by the federal government to toy with Nigeria’s future by continuing to maliciously deploy the military in the region or attempting to deploy sinister divide and rule tactics against the region’s key actors.
“President Muhammadu Buhari is advised to personally and visibly head a holistic solution-seeking strategy that will prove his commitment to a robustly sustainable peace in the region, for there to be true unity, stability and progress in Nigeria.”
A Niger Delta group, United Niger Delta Energy Development Security Strategy has accused President Buhari of toying with Nigeria’s future
He decried what he called “the on-going farce by too many of President Buhari’s political friends and ministers, who are wasting time establishing so-called contact committees that will not resolve pertinent issues sustainable.”
He urged the Buhari administration to “return to the successful Yar’Adua template of 2009,” noting that former President Goodluck Jonathan failed to consolidate on Yar’Adua’s gains in the region.
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Uranta also called on Buhari to “address the nation on an indefinite government ceasefire to be matched by armed actors in the region, government’s commitment to the National Maritime University, Okerenkoko and, the appointment of a savvy Special Adviser (Niger Delta Affairs).”
Uranta’s statement comes just after President Muhammadu Buhari had said his administration would rebuild Nigeria, including the Niger Delta region.
The president said the gazette on the Niger Delta amnesty programme by the Umaru Yar’Adua administration is being studied with a view to determining what had been fulfilled, promising that whatever is left would equally be addressed.
Militants in the Niger Delta region especially the Niger Delta Avengers have been blowing up pipelines in the region and has vowed to continue with this destruction until zero oil is produced in the region.
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