Militancy: Give Buhari opportunity to develop N-Delta – Omo-Agege

UGHELLI-THE Senator representing Delta Central senatorial district, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has called on the people of Niger Delta region to give President Muhammadu Buhari the opportunity to develop the region, insisting that an attack on oil installations was not the solution to the problem of the oil-rich region. Omo-Agege who stated this while fielding questions from newsmen shortly after a meeting with host community leaders and other stakeholders in Urhobo land in Ughelli, said the Urhobo do not need anybody to tell President Muhammadu Buhari their needs.

He said: “Those who are doing these bombings have their grievances and I believe these grievances could be channeled through proper communication with the federal government and I mean through their elected representatives.” Urhobo interest Pointing out that he was elected to be the mouthpiece of the Urhobo, he said; “As the Senator representing the Urhobo nation, my single mandate is to protect the Niger Delta interest, which must now be situated within the Urhobo interest. “There is currently a lot of agitation in the Niger Delta. 

We are Urhobo, an ethnic nationality in the Niger Delta, we have the Niger Delta interest and we also have the Urhobo interest. “The interest has to be in alliance, so to speak. Now with this spate of bombings in the Niger Delta, we are not happy with it and we believe that we require dialogue to be able to bring this to some form of resolution. “We believe that the President needs to be encouraged. We believe it would create an enabling environment for him to come and develop the area and thus opportunity should be given before he is being condemned as God did not even condemn without giving him a hearing.

  I see Buhari face-to-face

 “I have a one-on-one relationship with Mr. President and I do not need anyone to tell him what we need and that is why we called this meeting. We felt we should sit down, take a common position, which we would present to Mr. President. “We want to develop Urhobo land, we do not want individuals developed and we want the communities developed. For too long, forms of development have come to or through individuals. 

We do not want that anymore as these individuals would come and go, but the community would remain and that is the essence of this meeting,” he said.

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