A Niger Delta group, has announced that there will be no 2019 election in the entire South-South States, unless Nigeria is restructured.
The group made this threat in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, during a Stakeholder’s meeting that was attended by the region’s States Assembly Members, ex-political office holders, serving political appointees, and Captains of industry.
The Niger Delta group, which unlike the Biafra agitators is demanding for restructuring, added that, the only restructuring the region would accept, is the one that will bequeath it with 100 percent ownership and management of resources in the region.
The communiqué reads: “Over 60 Niger Delta young leaders, including Members of State Assemblies, former Commissioners, government appointees, and some private sector players, across States of the Niger Delta Region, met in Port Harcourt, on restructuring of Nigeria.
“Niger Delta people, have unanimously agreed that restructuring embodies 100 percent control of their resources.
“The young leaders unanimously demand for 100 percent resource ownership, control and management, and the restructuring of the current faulty political and economic architecture of Nigeria, which is a source of provocation. This must be done before the 2019 general elections, or there will be no elections across the region, and no exploration of oil blocks.”
