Tag: PANDEF

‘FG commiting genocide in Niger Delta’ – PANDEF 

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PANDEF on N'Delta

The Niger-Delta apex socio-cultural organisation, (PANDEF), has accused the Federal Government of systematically committing genocide in the region. .Its spokesman, Chief Ominimini Obiuwevbi raised the concern in a media chat with members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Ughelli Correspondents Chapel, Delta State, stating that decades of oil pollution and Government failure to remediate its effect leading to untold hardship, diseases, and death. Obiuwevbi said, ineptitude by the Federal Government, its continued denial, neglect, and inadequate compensation to improve the lives of the Niger Delta people from the effect…

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“Obey court order on Kanu now” – MBF, ACF, PANDEF, others urge FG

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The Middle-Belt Forum (MBF), Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) and Igbo National Council (INC), among others, have called on the Federal Government to respect the order of the court by releasing the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. Recall that an Appeal Court in Abuja, presided over by Justice Oludotun Adebola on Thursday discharged and acquitted him. However, the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, noted that the court didn’t acquit the IPOB leader. Reacting to the development, the MBF President,…

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‘PDP has dug its grave for jettisoning zoning’ – PANDEF

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The Pan-Niger Delta Forum, (PANDEF), has said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dug its own grave by jettisoning zoning and throwing open the contest for the party’s presidential ticket ahead of the 2023 general election. Its National Publicity Secretary of PANDEF, Ken Robinson, said this in a statement made available to newsmen in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, yesterday. Robinson said the decision of the National Executive Committee of the PDP to uphold the Governor Samuel Ortom committee’s recommendation was unfortunate and shameful. He called on the ruling All Progressives…

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