PIB Assent: PANDEF To Consult Stakeholders On Way Forward

The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has said it will consult governors of the Niger Delta states, members of the National Assembly from Southern Nigeria

and other groups in the region before deciding on next line of action following the presidential assent to the Petroleum Industry Bill , 2021 by President Muhammadu Buhari.

PANDEF’s national publicity secretary, Hon. Ken Robinson, disclosed this on Tuesday while speaking on the LEADERSHIP Podcast breakfast show, ‘InsideNIGERIA’, which was monitored in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.Robinson, who described the new petroleum law as the continuation of the oppression and marginalisation of the people of Niger Delta, stated that the addition of some states in the South into the frontier basins was a mere cover-up.

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