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Nigeria: Onuesoke Berates ACF Over Comments On N-Delta
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Vanguard (Lagos)
30 June 2008
Posted to the web 30 June 2008
Mr. Sunny Onuesoke, former governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party in Delta State has condemned the utterances of Arewa Consultative Forum on the problems in the Niger Delta, sayng "the northerners should leave us alone and allow the Federal Government to settle the problem amicably and not by constituting a jamboree committee headed Prof. Ibrahim Gambari.
Onuesoke made this assertion while speaking with journalists on the position of the Arewa Consultative Forum on the Niger Delta in Warri recently. He asked the northern leaders how many development commission that were setup by the Federal Government to develop the north to its present enviable state.
He refuted the claim that Niger Delta leaders are responsible for militancy in the region stating that the current problem was as a result of bad leadership of past military generals of the north who were only there to exploit the South South to their benefit.
He noted that a good example is the refinery cited in Kaduna State which does not produce crude oil, stressing that headquarters of NNPC, Shell, Chevron, Exon Mobil, Elf and other oil parastatals are not in the Niger Delta. Can there be any other marginalisation more than this, he quarried.
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He called on the ACF to be wary of utterances on Niger Delta alleging that they are the cause of the present crisis in the region. The PDP chieftain queried their stance against move by the Federal Government to develop the region and funds allocated to states in the Niger Delta.
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