The Niger Delta Region, has raised an alarm that former President, Goodluck Jonathan, did not attend to the needs of the Niger Delta region, while he held sway as the nation’s President, but managed to take of his wife and close relations.
The region made this disclosure through the Executive Director of African Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, Rev David Ugolor.
The statement came barely a few hours, when the leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Salvation Force, Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, warned the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, to stop visiting the Niger Delta Region.
“This jamboree by the Vice President is funny. Are they our overlords or are we being colonized that they are coming to visit here and there? Don’t they know what is right? The oil belongs to us; it does not belong to Nigeria. Ijaw oil belongs to us.
“Which road was built in Ijaw land with groundnut money, or with revenue gotten from cocoa? So the thing is that this jamboree should stop, they know what is right and they should leave what is ours for us, because they do not have the right to give it to us,’’ Asari Dokubo had said.
In his reaction, Ugolor cautioned Dokubo-Asari to avoid actions that could tear the region apart, adding that it was indecorous of him as one of the celebrated arrow heads of the struggle, to impute that there was nothing like Niger Delta struggle, but Ijaw struggle.
“Niger Delta struggle is a common agenda for all the ethnic groups in the region, and should not take an individual ethnic coloration. All the ethnic groups, Urhobo, Ogoni, Itsekeri, Isoko, and others, have played their role. Gun is not the only option.
“For example, Ken Saro-Wiwa and Comrade Sunny Ofehe of the Hope for Niger Delta Campaign, are not carrying guns, Nnimmo Bassey is not carrying gun, and nobody will discount their contributions to the Niger Delta struggle. We also need to be careful, not to play into the hands of Abuja agenda.
“Even when Dr. Goodluck Jonathan was President, he did not deal with Niger Delta Questions. What was responsible? He managed to take care of his wife and close relations.
“If the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo’s visit will turn around things for the Niger Delta people, which include the poor Ijaw, not the self-centered war entrepreneurs, we should all rise up and support him, and allow new thinking to shape the future of the region,” he said.
The environmental activist continued: “We cannot continue to create division and think we will succeed, Dokubo – Asari has played a useful role to draw global attention to the plight of our people, but he should not invest in narratives that will split the common agenda.
“United we stand and divided we fall, I think Dokubo-Asari’s interview with Vanguard today (yesterday), will not help to build a common agenda, so I strongly appeal to him to use his goodwill to strengthen inter-ethnic cooperation, and also give chance to the Vice President, to implement the new agenda. It is time to try an alternative to model.”
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