N’Delta Govs, Ministers Should Meet Buhari —Hon Eyiboh

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(Last Updated On: 2021-07-24)

 

A former member of the House of Representatives, Hon Eseme Eyiboh, said the blame going round as a result of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, should not go only to the National Assembly members, but also to state governors of the Niger Delta for their failure to constructively engage their northern colleagues.

”Whether the PIB is taking care of our problem or not, what we are experiencing is the outcome of poor leadership recruitment process. When the bill went to committees, after the committees, and then came to clause by clause consideration, how many Niger- Delta lawmakers participated in the process deeply, engaging colleagues from northern parts of the country?

“Also, how many of the Niger Delta governors took particular interest in the PIB by engaging their Northern colleagues, party counterparts?

“So it is not all about the National Assembly members, it is also about constructive engagement. We must learn how to grow the kind of leadership that we want as a people”, Eyiboh said

On way forward, Eyiboh suggested that key stakeholders of the region, particularly state governors and ministers, could still engage constructively with Mr. President to look at those issue very well and not to sign the bill, stressing that the PIB is within the province of a national power grid that could only be treated with constructive engagement.

He cautioned: “I will not say we should resort to self-help. Every Law has its own time. Even if the PIB is passed by National Assembly, that is not the final stage, the president can still look at it before given his assent.”

“It will be wrong to say they (Niger -Delta NASS members) did not do well. They did well within their capacity, they all have their individual capacity and some of them brought their individual capacity to bear. But such capacity were not strong enough to navigate that corridor,” he said.

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