Calabar — Lobbying and negotiations, which are the hallmarks of the presidential system of government, will be deployed to ensure that the Petroleum Industrial Bill (PIB) does not suffer a still birth, Senate Leader, Chief Victor Ndoma-Egba, said yesterday in Calabar.
Obviously reacting to the gang up against the bill by northern legislators at the National Assembly owing to pressure from state governors and political leaders of that zone, Ndoma-Egba pledged that since the bill holds the key to the envisaged reforms in the petroleum sector, everything would be done to make it see the light of the day.
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