The Chief Edwin Clark-led Pan Niger Delta Coastal States Stakeholders Consultative Forum on Saturday rejected the Federal Government’s proposed two-day summit in the region. The group vowed not to attend the event.

The leaders also called on the government of the United States to prevail on President Muhammadu Buhari to abide by his earlier agreement to hold dialogue with militants in the region.

Clark, who was represented by a former Police Affairs Minister, Alaowei Bozimo, said this when a three-man delegation from the US visited the elders and stakeholders at Effurun, Delta State.



This is the second time officials from the US are visiting the Clark dialogue team which also enjoys the support of some militant groups.

It was a closed-door meeting and journalists were barred from attending it.

The US officials, who were acting with the support of the Federal Government, were told to prevail on the President to ensure a genuine dialogue in the face of the renewed militancy in the region.

A militant group in the region, Niger Delta Avengers, on Friday blew up a crude oil exporting line in Bonny, Rivers State, to protest what they described as government’s delayed tactics in holding talks with the people of the region.

However, Bozimo told journalists after the meeting, “It is timely that the US has come again on a fact-finding mission. We just told them that we want a dialogue and not the summit that Federal Government intended to convene.

“It is equally a wise decision of the government to have suspended that inappropriate summit going by the reports we have received. We believe that the answer is not a summit. The answer is dialogue. The way forward is not the jamborees or endless summits.

“A very incongruous gathering of nearly 500 persons with government officials talking to themselves at Abuja, which would have been the experience with the summit, could not have addressed the key issues. That is why we are objected to the summit. Dialogue and not the monologue they were trying to put up can resolve the crises in the region.’’.

He also that leaders in the region trusted the US fact-finding team to deliver their position to its government.

Bozimo said, ‘‘They have come to see things for themselves. And we believe they will take the feedback to their government who will then be in a position to advise the Federal Government in order to solve the current situation in the Niger Delta.’’

Some of the leaders who attended the meeting included Prof. Gordini Darah, Chief Isaac Jemide, Prof. Luck Akaruese, Dr. Sylvester Piniki, Chief (Mrs.) Margaret Unukegbon and Gen. Don Idada Ikpemwen (retd.) among others.
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The leaders are as confused as the followers

Yea don't attend the fg nonsense

hmmm

Their problem is not about a useless Summit whose recommendations may end up in the dustbin or yet be tagged as "Job for the boys". What they want is a round table heart to heart talks with the FG led by President Buhari himself or the most Senior Official in his Govt. with the AGF physically present and the dialogue properly monitored by reputable International agencies. As simple as that!
Even though I condemn the act of unleashing their boys on the State as witnessed in yesterday's pipeline bombing by Avengers, just to send a signal to EFCC not to press further on PEJ and others currently in their dragnet , confirming people's doubt about being an all IJAW struggle, it's still better the Federal Government treats the merits of the struggle with all the seriousness and urgency it demands before thinking of serious Military onslaught in a case they still want to be miserable after the talks. Time is of the essence Mr. President. Anything that can stop us from sliding into depression/pull us out from recession is most welcome but not including a compromise of the ongoing anti corruption war against known looters of out Treasury because majority of us Nigerians are behind you. The time to act and act fast is NOW!!!!

Stay at home den its at ur loss

which yeye submit.At the end they will now come up with useless JOB FOR THE BOYS.

sarrki:
The leaders are as confused as the followers

But not jobless as you

Omotorvidosky:
Their problem is not about a useless Summit whose recommendations may end up in the dustbin or yet be tagged as "Job for the boys". What they want is a round table heart to heart talks with the FG led by President Buhari himself or the most Senior Official in his Govt. with the AGF physically present and the dialogue properly monitored by reputable International agencies. As simple as that!
Even though I condemn the act of unleashing their boys on the State as witnessed in yesterday's pipeline bombing by Avengers, just to send a signal to EFCC not to press further on PEJ and others currently in their dragnet , confirming people's doubt about being an all IJAW struggle, it's still better the Federal Government treats the merits of the struggle with all the seriousness and urgency it demands before thinking of serious Military onslaught in a case they still want to be miserable after the talks. Time is of the essence Mr. President. Anything that can stop us from sliding into depression/pull us out from recession is most welcome but not including a compromise of the ongoing anti corruption war against known looters of out Treasury because majority of us Nigerians are behind you. The time to act and act fast is NOW!!!!

Total gibberish and balderdash you put up there.
The majority of Nigerians are too weak, pale and emaciated to support Buhari's useless anti corruption cacophonies.

Nigerians are hungry and the last thing for us to do is support a selective probe(selective in the sense that Amaechi, Fashola and Tinubu are still enjoying immunity under Buhari despite the stench of corruption oozing out of their bodies)

The topic should be WE WONT ATTEND THE HAUSA/FULANI SUMMIT OF PACKING OUR OIL. They should say things as they are.

BuariCopyPaste:



Total gibberish and balderdash you put up there.
The majority of Nigerians are too weak, pale and emaciated to support Buhari's useless anti corruption cacophonies.

Nigerians are hungry and the last thing for us to do is support a selective probe(selective in the sense that Amaechi, Fashola and Tinubu are still enjoying immunity under Buhari despite the stench of corruption oozing out of their bodies)

Another hate filled loser spotted.

Omotorvidosky:

Another hate filled loser spotted.

You are the loser here.... okpo

What else is the interest of the US in Nigeria if not oil. When we needed them to combat Boko Haram, they declined offering any assistance. They are watching Nigeria slide gradually into another civil war and their interests is only in the oil rich region.

I bet that if the Biafra secession becomes a reality today, they will automatically stop all assistance to Nigeria with immediate effect and declare allegiance to the region controlling the oil rich region.

Cluelessness everywhere in the Niger Delta.

I like you

okosodo:
The topic should be WE WONT ATTEND THE HAUSA/FULANI SUMMIT OF PACKING OUR OIL. They should say things as they are.

At least we're not as clueless as your dumb president.

babdap:
Cluelessness everywhere in the Niger Delta.

Nigeria will not dialogue with criminals... Whoever wants war should start it. You and your people will be ones to pay dearly with their lives for it.