• Says Ijaw will resist it with the last blood -IPDI
A leading advocacy group in Niger Delta, the Ijaw People’s Development Initiative, IPDI has threatened to shut down Niger Delta oil facilities over moves by president Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his wife, first lady Remi Tinubu to alter the Warri federal constituency delineation report in favour of the Itsekiris, despite Ijaws were the majority in the Warri federal constituency.
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This was contained in a statement signed by the group’s national president Comrade Ozobo Austin in which a copy of it was sent to newsmen in Abuja, on Tuesday.
According to the group, information at its disposal indicates that president Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his wife, first lady have taken over the INEC duty of presiding over the electoral process of Warri delineation to undermine the rights of Ijaw and Urhobo people, adding that Ijaw nation would defend itself with any means possible to them.
The advocacy group accused the president with the manipulative powers of his wife Remi Tinubu (Itsekiri woman) recently withdrew the delineation issues which was presided over by NSA to the office of the Chief staff who is complete Yoruba man to alter and manipulate the earlier released Warri federal constituency delineation report to favour the Itsekiris people.
This, according to IPDI, was a deliberate attempt to favour the Itsekiris at the expense of the Ijaw and Urhobo who are the major stakeholders in the Warri federal constituency.
The IPDI stated that the move was against the principle of fairness and justice and vowed to resist it with the last drop of blood.
Comrade Ozobo called on all Ijaws and well-meaning Nigerians to rise up and condemn this act of injustice, stating that the Ijaws will not stand by and watch their rights being taken away by Tinubu’s led administration.
He warned that if Tinubu goes ahead with this decision, Ijaw youths will not hesitate to shut down oil facilities in the Niger Delta in order to press home their demands for justice.
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The group also called on former Presidents Olusangun Obasanjo, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and Abdusalami Abubakar to call Tinubu and his wife to order and ensure that justice is served in the Warri delineation exercise.
They also urged the National Boundary Commission to return to their duty of handling the delineation process to prevent further agitation and unrest in the region.
They also called on the international community to monitor the situation and ensure that justice is served.
The group further threatened that the president and his wife who are Yoruba and Itsekiri refused to heed to caution, Ijaw nation may make Warri ungovernable and the Itsekiris nation may be wiped out from existence.
