A coalition of South-South elders, stakeholders, and professional groups have begun moves to work against the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu.
The coalition, Alliance for Rescue of the Niger Delta Region (ARNDR), said its opposition to Tinubu’s presidential bid was due to harsh treatment melted against the people of the region by the Muhammadu Buhari government.
OsunDaily News reports that the spokesman of the coalition, James Komobila, made this known in a statement issued on Thursday.
Komobila added that the brazen acts of disdain and deprivation perpetrated against the Niger Delta people in the last seven years by the APC government was another reason for opposing Tinubu’s candidacy.
He said the Niger Delta region had been bleeding since the inception of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari and was in dire straits.
Komobila said all the landmark interventions for peace and development in the region established by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had been undermined by the ruling party.
He said such interventions included the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), and the 1999 constitutional provision of 13 percent derivation from natural resources.
Komobila asserted the objective of the coalition is to safeguard and promote the interest of the region in the February 2023 presidential poll.
