The Pan-Niger Delta Forum has stated that the Niger Delta is the only region in Nigeria that can rightfully claim marginalisation or impoverishment.
PANDEF was responding to a Thursday remark made by the Arewa Consultative Forum to President Bola Tinubu, which claimed that the economic policies of his government were impoverishing the North.
However, the National Spokesman of PANDEF, Chief Christopher Ominimini, in a statement released on Saturday, stressed that oil, which is found in the Niger Delta region, is the mainstay of the nation’s economy. Yet, the people of the region have not seen corresponding development.
Ominimini said that decades of oil exploration and extraction activities in the region had resulted in pollution of farmlands, rivers, and the environment, but the region has yet to see the benefits of this wealth.
He expressed dismay that while the revenue…