A group called the Coalition of Niger Delta Agitators, presumably a assortment of a gargantuan preference of aggrieved groups in Nigeria’s south-south impart, has given northerners and Yoruba indigenes up until October 1 to vacate the impart.
The coalition in a assertion issued on Thursday expressed its readiness to resume bomb attacks on oil installations within the impart by September 10 sooner than the declaration of an impartial Niger Delta impart by October 1, 2017.
The assertion grow to be as soon as signed by the convener of the NDA, John Duku; Ekpo Ekpo of Niger Delta Volunteers; Osarolor Nedam (Niger Delta Warriors); Henry Okon Etete (Niger Delta Peoples Opponents); Asukwo Henshaw (Bakassi Freedom Opponents); and Ibinabo Horsfall (Niger Delta Hump for Justice).
The coalition in its assertion on Thursday equally distanced itself from the consultations between the Nigerian presidency and leaders of the oil-impart below the aegis of the Pan Niger-Delta Forum (PANDEF).
“We entirely condemn the fresh meeting between PANDEF and the Performing President; we gawk it as one other intention to deceive the Niger Delta of us. Initially, the meeting grow to be as soon as marred by inordinate greed of the PANDEF as they did not dangle the representatives of the agitating groups and formative years leaders.
“We love to let the Performing President know that these he met maintain no skill and can’t resolve the fresh disaster within the Niger Delta; as a result of this truth they’ll not signify the militants or inform for the Niger Delta of us,” the coalition acknowledged.
The Agitators maintain asked the federal authorities to quit “all oil blocks owned by the northerners/Yoruba to Niger Delta indigenes” while equally annoying that every oil companies operating in such oil blocks/wells vacate the impart by October 1st, 2017.
Other calls for made by the group encompass the relocation of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) headquarters to any of the Niger Delta states, replacement of the fresh Neighborhood Managing Director, Maikanti Baru (a northerner) with an indigene of the impart and the relocation of the operational bases of firm oil companies to the Niger Delta.
The federal authorities is yet to react to the assertion. Pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere on the choice hand reportedly instructed the Punch that it wanted to take a look at the authenticity of the threats before reacting to the assertion. Chief of the Arewa Childhood Neighborhood, Yerima Shettima who had earlier issued a an identical quit look to easterners within the north declined to touch upon the most up-to-date threats from the Niger Delta.