A group in the Niger Delta region of the country under the aegis of United Niger Delta Energy Development Security Strategy (UNDEDSS) has disclosed that the President is armed with the tool to end the crisis plaguing the Niger Delta region of the country.
The group in a statement issued further added that Buhari had allowed too many petty rivalries within his administration which has clouded his judgement on matters affecting the nation.
The group in the statement which was issued in Warri, Delta state said the president could end the crisis if he wanted to.
The statement reads: “President Buhari knows what exactly he needs to do to end the crisis today, if he so desires. He probably has not because he has allowed his administration to be beset with too many petty rivalries, too many individuals jockeying for putative relevance and too many party chieftains from Niger Delta who don’t have the interests of the region at heart.
“We worked with other well-meaning Niger Delta indigenes, interfaced with patriotic members of the President’s inner cabinet and intelligence chieftains on the proposal, which has been submitted to the president.
“Armed agitators in the creeks, the international community, including the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (USA) as well as other interested Nigerians, like Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka, are privy to the proposal.
“The proposal is hinged on four vital prerequisites: the affirmation by Mr. President that there is no change in policy on the need to begin the matriculation of students this year in the National Maritime University at Okerenkoko, Delta State; the rebirth of the Niger Delta Council, with its five relevant sub-committees of the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s 2009 template; the guarantee of safe passage for delegates to any dialogue location, after all armed parties publicly agree to a 60-day Armistice to be proposed by the federal government and the attendance of foreign observers, including diplomats from the European Union (EU), UK and USA, to be invited by the government to any such dialogue.”
Recall that the group had last mint suggested a way out of the mess between he Niger Delta militants and the Federal Government.
UNDEDSS in its recommendation noted that the crisis in the region could be handled totally if and when the President himself decides to chair the dialogue team and also appoint people with the interest of the region and the nation in general as part of his team.