The Pan Niger Delta Discussion board (PANDEF) is optimistic its Peace and Reconciliation Committee headed by former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Obong Victor Attah, will resolve the political disaster rocking Rivers State and different components of the South-South geo-political area.
PANDEF nonetheless urged authorities in any respect ranges, people and organisations to work in unison with it to attain the goal of bringing lasting peace within the area.
The apex regional physique had at its particular common meeting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on October 24, 2024, constituted a excessive degree Peace and Reconciliation Committee headed by Attah, who can be co-chairman of PANDEF Board of Trustees (BoT).
Rivers State has been engulfed in a political disaster following the battle between Federal Capital Territory (FCT) minister, Nyesom Wike, and his successor, Governor Siminalayi Fubara, over management of state’s political construction below the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Nonetheless, nationwide spokesman of PANDEF, Chief Dr. Obiuwevbi Christopher Ominimini, yesterday assured that the reconciliation committee will mediate and resolve all political crises within the area.
Ominimini in a press release mentioned PANDEF, below the nationwide chairmanship of diplomat and scholar, Amb. Dr. Godknows Igali, is “promising that the committee will meditate on and resolve all lingering political crises in numerous states of the South-South geopolitical zone.”
Different members of the Excessive degree Peace and Reconciliation Committee are Senator Emmanuel Ibok-Essien (Akwa-Ibom and fast previous nationwide chairman, PANDEF); former Senate Whip, Senator Rowland Owie; Senator Stella Omu (Delta); former Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, Rear Admiral G. John-Jonah; former army Governor of Kwara State, H. E. Pam Ogar (Cross-River); and Rt. Hon. Dr. Stella Dorgu (Bayelsa).
Ominimini added, “We name on the federal government in any respect ranges, people and organizations to work in unison with PANDEF with a view to reaching the goal of bringing lasting peace to the Niger Delta as no stone can be left unturned, particularly as all can be given full listening ears to underpin the distant and fast causes of the disaster and on the finish of the task, we will all sing “Niger Delta Area, we hail thee, our personal expensive place of origin”, although tribe and tongue could differ, in brotherhood, we stand.
“The management of PANDEF has assured the South-South geo-political zone and all Nigerians usually that, on the finish of the task of the Excessive Degree Peace and Reconciliation Committee that has been set as much as mediate and resolve the lingering disaster within the space, all vexing points can be nipped within the bud,” Ominimini mentioned.
