The South East caucus of the All
Progressive Congress, APC, has risen in defence of President Muhammadu Buhari
by telling the Niger Delta Avengers to channel their grievances to former
President Goodluck Jonathan.
In a statement by the caucus
spokesman, Osita Okechukwu, he advised the militants to give President Buhari
time to look into their issues and problems.
Okechukwu said said it was making
the appeal taking into cognizance the laudable projects the president had
charted and lined up for the Niger Delta region, including the Clean-Up of
Ogoniland, completion of East-West road and Calabar-Lagos Railways.
He stated that the militants should
focus their grievances more with former President Goodluck Jonathan.
“May we honestly ask the Niger Delta
Avengers, where they were, when our dear former president, His Excellency, Dr
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR, from 6 May, 2010 to 29 May, 2015 presided over
Nigeria?” the caucus said.
“Were the Niger Delta Avengers in
deep slumber when Jonathan, for good five years failed to Clean-Up the Niger
Delta, failed to complete East-West road, failed to review Oil Blocks, failed
to Amend the Constitution to their taste, and failed to build the three
Greenfield Refineries which he awarded?
“In actual fact, if there is
anything to avenge, or anybody to blame, the barb should be directed at
ex-president Jonathan and cohorts who criminally neglected the Niger Delta and
by extension Nigeria via unconscionable planlessness and squander-mania.”
It said the ongoing bombings of oil
installations in the Niger Delta is an ill wind that will not blow anyone any
good, pointing out that bombings of forcados pipeline, Bonga oil field, Chevron
trunk lines and gas installations will not facilitate the implementation of
2014 National Conference report, funding of the Amnesty programme, nor the
clean up of the Niger Delta region.
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