BEVERLY HILLS, June 29, (THEWILL) – A group, the United Niger Delta Energy Development Security Strategy, UNDEDSS, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately take a clue from how late President Musa Yar’Adua was able to sustain cessation of hostilities in the Niger Delta region so as not to further worsen the nation’s battered oil revenue and power shortfalls caused by unavailability of crude and gas.
In a statement made available to THEWILL after its emergency meeting on Tuesday, the UNDEDSS Secretary General, Tony Uranta noted that the Federal Government already has all it takes to sustain existing peace in the region, stressing that the President needs to personally broadcast to the nation an indefinite Federal Government ceasefire which would involved the key actors in the region.
The statement entitled; ‘FGN playing with Nigeria’s Unity & Future’, said; “There’s no need to re-invent the wheel. All Buhari has to do is return to the very successful Yaradua Template of 2009”, maintaining however that former President Jonathan also failed to properly consolidate on the gains recorded by President Yar’ Adua in the region.
Uranta, in the statement, advised Buhari 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.
“If Buhari follows Yaradua’s lead”, Uranta stressed; “there will be sustainable cessation of hostilities in the Niger Delta, and the nation will not be subjected to further losses in National Revenues or the crippling power shortfalls due to unavailability of crude and gas.”
He however berated President Buhari’s political associates and ministers for grandstanding over the issues of the Niger Delta saying that the ongoing farce by too many of President Buhari’s political friends and Ministers, whom he said are wasting time establishing so-called Contact Committees that would not resolve the pertinent issues sustainably in the region.
Uranta maintained that 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.
Reiterating that the federal government has been made aware of how to resolve the avoidable crisis in the region, the UNDEDSS’s scribe called on the President to personally broadcast to the nation the Federal Government’s commitment to the National Maritime University, Okerenkoko; and, the appointment of a savvy Special Adviser (Niger Delta Affairs) to the President among other things.
Story by Joe Ogbodu
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