A South-South socio-cultural group, Niger Delta Young Leaders Stakeholders (NDYLS), has warned that there would be no oil blocs allocation or general election in the region come 2019 if the country is not restructured.

A former governorship candidate in Bayelsa state, Moses Siasia, during the weekend said the group which comprised of over 60 Niger Delta Young Leaders, including legislators, present and former commissioners, government appointees and some private sector players across states of the Niger Delta Region reached the resolution after a round table meeting in Port-Harcourt.

He said the group demanded 100 per cent resource ownership, control and management, while equally condemning every shade of hate speech in any part of the country.

According to Siasia, “the Niger Delta people have unanimously agreed that restructuring embodies 100% control of their resources.

“The young leaders unanimously demand for 100% resource ownership, control and management and the restructuring of the current faulty political and economic architecture of Nigeria which is a source of provocation and they said this must be done before the 2019 general elections or there will be no elections across the region and no exploration of oil blocks.

“The young leaders are determined in their resolve to put aside ethnicity and stand as one Niger-Delta.

“We must go back to the round table and discuss the principles of equity and justice and this must take effect from the highest seat of power to the communities which will birth true federalism in a new people’s constitution. As a people united for our future, we must act now.

“We also condemn all forms of hate speech emanating from any part of the country.

“The issues facing the Niger-Delta require both collective and personal responsibilities.

“We are resolved to look inward and beyond our ethnicity in the Niger-Delta so as to build a united region. We therefore call on all Niger-Deltans to work together in tackling the deep rooted problems facing our people and environment, and define the future of the Niger-Delta.

“The Young Leaders also resolved to carry out proper sensitization programmes in states across the Region and promised to engaged with critical stakeholders on their desire to move the country forward on the basis of fairness, justice and equity.”
http://regulusnews.com/2017/07/10/2019-no-election-will-hold-in-niger-delta-unless-nigeria-is-restructured-group/

Lol

Interesting

Nnamdi Kanu has reset their brain.... Good way to go anyway.

If not for Kanu, who would be talking of restructuring ?
Anyways...

God bless Nnamdi Kanu & Ipob, they've really awakened the sleeping people of SE/SS from their deep slumber. OUR MUMU DON DO!

I hope this does not just end in press statements....

Their eyes done dey open small small, thanks to IPOB

Na wa oohh see reset button??

where are the "we South south" groups? they won't come now to berate their people that just said they wont be election in their regions?

If Kanu had said this, they will start postulating all hypothesis and theorems why that is a wrong call, how it will affect the igbos?

OK NA

E don dey happen

Emulating IPOB.

That's good.
Una eyes don open sha!