NDYC Charges Buhari To Work With Saraki, Dogara…Seeks NDDC Board Dissolution
Niger Delta Youths have advised President MuhammaduBuhari to open up his hearts and work freely with the new leadership of the National Assembly for the interest of the nation.
Speaking under the aegies of Niger Delta Youth Coalition (NDYC), the youths said it would do the administration of President Buhari a lot of good if he discards his clique and partisan interest and work with the leadership of senator BukolaSaraki and YakubuDogara, the senate president and speaker House of Representatives respectively.
The National co-ordinator of NDYC, Prince Emmanuel Ogba who addressed the press on Monday in Port Harcourt court on the backdrop of insinuation that President Buhari shuns meeting with the Senate president emphasized that as the president of the country, Buhari should be seen to be above the dictates of his party plateform and to also see himself as the father to Nigerians.
“He should jettison his tribal, religious and party interest that Nigerian would have interest and confidence in his administration”, he noted, and remarked that by so doing, Buhari would be acting in consonance with his declaration of being ‘for everyone and for no one’ in his inaugural speech.
Commenting on the amnesty programme for Niger Delta ex-militants, the NDYC coordinator reminded Buhari that it was an interview of late president Musa Yar’Adua, a Nigerian President of Northern extraction and pleaded with him to endeavour to disburse funds to enable those undergoing training abroad under the scheme complete their training programmes.
He lamented that most of the Niger Delta Youths standing abroad were passing through difficulties as a resulting non release of fund by the Federal Government.
Ogba equally urged the President to pay up debts owed those who had the contract of protecting oil pipelines since it was a contract entered into through due process.
The group equally charged the president to dissolve the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and to immediately constitute a new board.
It accused the present board of squandering the fortunes of the commission without any meaningful development in the region to show for it, and stated that appointing a new board would bring back life to the commission.
Sign: Prince Emmanuel Ogba National Coordinator