IJAW NATIONAL CONGRESS TACKLES FORMER PRESIDENT OLUSEGUN OBASANJO OVER COMMENT ON RESOURCE CONTROL

The Ijaw National Congress has condemned former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his recent comment on resource control at an event in Abuja. Obasanjo had during the event said resources in any part of the country should be enjoyed by all Nigerians. But the President of the group, Benjamin Okaba, in a press conference said the Ijaw people consider Obasanjo’s claims on resources ownership as provocative and wicked.

He added that the ethnic nationality will not be intimidated by the antics of the former president to keep silent on the issues affecting their people and the Niger Delta region at large. According to Okaba, the non-constitution of the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC and the non-inclusion of the Ijaw terrain in the proposed NNPC road rehabilitation are pointers to the deliberate plot to subject them to poverty.