A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Mike Ozekhome, has disagreed with former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his statement that Niger Delta cannot lay claim to the crude oil found in the region.He insisted that just as the Niger Delta’s oil belongs to the Nigerian federation, the minerals in other parts of the country also belonged to the country.
“Help me inform Obasanjo that Nigeria operates a federal system of government, and that federalism is fiscal and plural. One of the major attributes of federalism is that it ensures that regions, sub-national or federating units develop according to their pace and needs, using the God-given resources that are available to such units.They pay tax to the central government.
“Help me remind Obasanjo to remember history, and that the major reason his 2005 Political Reform Conference failed was because of the rancor and rockus generated by the thorny and still unsolved controversy of resource control. He should remember that this led the South South delegates to stage a walkout from the conference. I was not only a Civil Society delegate, I was actually the head of the Civil Society unit that drafted our final committee report and recommendations.
What it looks like when an old mouth starts running. The devastation, pollution & degradation, loss of agricultural means of livelihood & negative impact on health occasioned by oil exploration & exploitation happens to all Nigeria? KeepItOn
That man was saying nonsense, where was Nigeria in 1800
OBJ talking rubbish, oil belongs to Nigeria 🇳🇬the reason why he pocketed $16 billion dollars meant for the electricity and today walking freely and talking Bacchanal talk, an evil 😈man and liar with out repentant
Products coming from Ota Farm belongs to Nigeria
If the oil was to be found in his state revise is the case ooo Nigeria the zoo 😄😄🤣
Obasanjo is one of the biggest problem in Nigeria
He has the right to disagree but he also has the to go to court and challenge the inconsistencies in the Court. Ranting cannot change anything.
Good morning if you're just waking up🤣
Obasanjo is afraid for his oyel wells
And the environmental degradation? Who owns that? Clean up their land please.give them more money .
The earlier the so called Niger-Delta and South-East realized that Obasanjo hate them more anythin de better. He committed genocide in Odi Bayelsa 1999, and nothing happened that's why he has the effrontery to vomit rubbish statement.
Matthew Obasanjo should respect his old age. Niger delta oil belongs to Nigeria but the gold in Zamfara belongs to Zamfara citizens. If Ogun was an oil producing state, Matthew Obasanjo won't vomit this rubbish
The lawyer said the Niger Delta region has been repressed, suppressed, marginalized and neglected. - The Niger delta sold their rights to those resources by supporting one Nigeria without insisting on resource control,I’m really sorry for them but no one can help them now.
This one, wants to be attorney General incase PDP wins election 🤣😂😂😂
Shameless zoo call Nigeria foolani terror county must collapse support biafar and oduduwa Ambazonian republic free saint mazi nnamdi kanu uncomdionly free biafar
OlusegunObasanjo what an evil man indeed, he so much remand me of one of those old uncle one will have as head of family in his village better still not have, green snake in a green grass
I'm really sorry for anyone who have kind of OlusegunObasanjo as head of their families at village my brother you better still not have
Does the gold in Zamfara belong to Nigeria,? Baba respect yourself
Don’t mind obj
As it is called zamfara gold so it is called Niger delta oil and that’s on period!
This does not call for argument as soon the true owner will be known
Well spoken.
Infact that old man is just a shameless old 🐄 who knows not what to say about the right of the indigenous people but only spew balderdash always.
Here we go again economically clueless activist trying to use crude oil to destabilize the nation when technology and the Nigeria large domestic market has replaced crude oil as the major sources of revenue and capitalism ensures corporation takes ownership of oil and not govt