The United Niger Delta Energy Development Security Strategy (UNDEDSS), has
urged President Muhammadu Buhari to adopt late President Musa Yar’Adua
template in tackling the intermittent crisis in the Niger Delta region.
Speaking after its emergency meeting on Tuesday, UNDEDSS Secretary
General, Tony Uranta said that as part of the holistic solution-seeking
strategy that will prove his commitment to a robustly sustainable peace in
the Niger Delta region, President Buhari should taking 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 or crippling power shortfalls due to unavailability
of crude and gas.
In a statement made available to newsmen on Wednesday, Uranta said that
the Federal Government already have all it takes to sustain existing peace
in the region, stressing that the President need 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 President
Yar’ Adua’s gains in the region.
Uranta in the statement said President Buhari is advised 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 by way of engendering peace in the region through a holistic
solution-seeking strategy 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.