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President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered immediate crack down on the new militant group, who blew up the Chevron pipeline platform few days ago.
The militant group called the Niger Delta Avengers, who took responsibility for the sabotage at Okran offshore, in Warri had said even the military would not be able to save the oil explorers from their hands.
The blown up pipeline in Warri was linking Warri and Kaduna refineries, leading to the lose of 105,000 barrels of oil production in three days.
It was the attacks, which has the potential of adversely affecting the revenue of the country, that lead to President’s directive to the Nigerian Army, the Nigerian Navy and the Nigerian Air Force to stop the activities of the new group.
A presidential aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, “The President gave special instruction to the military, especially to the Chief of Naval Staff, that this ugly development of vandals in the Niger Delta should end immediately.”
Host Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, who spoke to reporters, was joined by Governors Udom Emmanuel (Akwa Ibom) Nyesom Wike (Rivers), Seriake Dickson (Bayelsa) and Ben Ayade (Cross Rivers).
Okowa said the meeting also discussed how the PDP would do well in the Edo State governorship election. Edo is the only state controlled by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the zone and its governorship election is due in September.
Okowa said: “We discussed issues concerning our great party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). You will recall that our convention has been fixed to hold in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on May 21 and we are putting plans in place for that convention.
“The Chairman of the committee for the convention is Governor Wike of Rivers State and we use this medium to call on all our supporters and members of the PDP to desist from any form of crisis before, during and after the convention, we accepted as a party and the leadership of the party agreed that the national convention should hold at Port Harcourt. We stand by that resolution.
”We tried to map out strategies in order to strengthen the PDP in Edo State.”
Asked about the strategies to take the state from the APC: Okowa said: “We will not let the cat out of the bag because we are putting things in place at the moment”.
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered immediate crack down on the new militant group, who blew up the Chevron pipeline platform few days ago.
The militant group called the Niger Delta Avengers, who took responsibility for the sabotage at Okran offshore, in Warri had said even the military would not be able to save the oil explorers from their hands.
The blown up pipeline in Warri was linking Warri and Kaduna refineries, leading to the lose of 105,000 barrels of oil production in three days.
It was the attacks, which has the potential of adversely affecting the revenue of the country, that lead to President’s directive to the Nigerian Army, the Nigerian Navy and the Nigerian Air Force to stop the activities of the new group.
A presidential aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, “The President gave special instruction to the military, especially to the Chief of Naval Staff, that this ugly development of vandals in the Niger Delta should end immediately.”
Host Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, who spoke to reporters, was joined by Governors Udom Emmanuel (Akwa Ibom) Nyesom Wike (Rivers), Seriake Dickson (Bayelsa) and Ben Ayade (Cross Rivers).
Okowa said the meeting also discussed how the PDP would do well in the Edo State governorship election. Edo is the only state controlled by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the zone and its governorship election is due in September.
Okowa said: “We discussed issues concerning our great party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). You will recall that our convention has been fixed to hold in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on May 21 and we are putting plans in place for that convention.
“The Chairman of the committee for the convention is Governor Wike of Rivers State and we use this medium to call on all our supporters and members of the PDP to desist from any form of crisis before, during and after the convention, we accepted as a party and the leadership of the party agreed that the national convention should hold at Port Harcourt. We stand by that resolution.
”We tried to map out strategies in order to strengthen the PDP in Edo State.”
Asked about the strategies to take the state from the APC: Okowa said: “We will not let the cat out of the bag because we are putting things in place at the moment”.
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