{"id":102091,"date":"2022-12-23T21:01:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T20:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=102091"},"modified":"2022-12-23T21:03:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T20:03:51","slug":"nigeria-has-been-unfair-to-the-niger-delta-obi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/nigeria-has-been-unfair-to-the-niger-delta-obi\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria has been unfair to the Niger Delta – Obi"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi took his national campaign tour to Bayelsa state on friday declaring to Niger Delta people that Nigeria has been unfair to them.<\/div>\n
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He, however, made a concrete promise that if elected President on February 25, 2023, he will use oil money to rebuild the region.<\/div>\n
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\u201cGoing round the\u00a0 entire Niger Delta and Bayelsa state in particularly, I stand here to say that Nigeria has not been\u00a0 fair to the Niger Delta region\u201d<\/div>\n
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Obi\u2019s position came when he addressed Niger Delta critical stakeholders that comprised traditional rulers,\u00a0 Obidient youths in the area, Christian Association of Nigeria CAN, Pan Niger Delta Forum PANDEF, among others in Yenogoa, Bayeslsa state capital.<\/div>\n
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On the increasing case of crude oil theft in the region, the LP Presidential flag bearer said, \u201cThe oil theft in the Niger Delta is done by government people and their collaborators. Common people don’t own\u00a0 vessels, you don’t put oil in your pocket. But all these things will stop when you put the right people, people with competence and commitment in government.<\/div>\n
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The former Anambra state Governor also spoke on the East\/ West Road saying, \u201cThe East- West\u00a0 road was flagged of since 1970 by the Federal Government and after 52 years they can’t complete it. I am coming to rebuild Bayelsa and the entire Niger Delta.”<\/div>\n
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Obi who lamented the level of needless poverty in the country said, \u201cWe have a population of over 200 million and we have the highest poverty in the world, highest youth unemployment in the world, highest out of school children and so on\u201d<\/div>\n
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He promised Nigerians that he and his vice presidential candidate, Datti Ahmed if elected will do nothing but to secure and protect Nigeria.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe must unite this country because we are too divided. We want to ensure that there is a rule of law. We will fight corruption because it is destroying our society. We want to ensure that we remove the country from consumption to production because the country is not producing anything. What they do is sharing.<\/div>\n
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\u201cBayelsa state is a riverine area, Bayelsa including all the waters is about 10.7million square meters of land. Borno state is 70.9. So it is 7 times size of Bayelsa state. So is Niger state,\u00a0 which has more fertile land. But they depend on resources from Bayelsa state.<\/div>\n
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Obi said his Presidency will make states contribute to the federal purse, because when they contribute we can make more money for the Nigerian state than we make from oil.<\/div>\n
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According to the LP candidate in a way of illustration, \u201cLand in Niger state is more than the land in Belgium and Netherlands\u00a0 combined. This 2 countries last year exported agricultural products that is over 10 billion dollars. Niger state can’t feed itself, it can’t export anything. If they will only do they have zero percent of what these two countries did. They will earn 15 billion dollars. And that is more than the money they would have gotten from oil.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe same in Borno state and so many other states in the North. But they are not doing anything, they are waiting to share from the oil. In Taraba, you can grow flower, coffee and tea. Kenya grow over half a bilion from flower. Ethiopia did over a billion from coffee.\u00a0 Taraba is waiting to share money from Bayelsa.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe Federal Government does not know that by cleaning the waters of Bayelsa, putting money in infrastructure in Bayelsa, we can get money out of them, because we would have been making money out of oil and from fish. It is a win-win. We want to change the country. We want to make it productive.<\/div>\n
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Obi reiterated his earlier statement since the campaign that, \u201cThis election shouldn’t be by turn. It is nobody\u2019s\u00a0 turn. It is the turn of Nigerians to take back our country. If anybody wants to talk about turn, I have the right to talk about turn, but I am not running on turn. I am an Igbo man. I am proud to be an Igbo man but am in this race as a Nigerian carrying a pan Nigeria ticket.”<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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