Elder statesman and South-South leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has said the anti-Ijaw posture of Mr. Timipre Sylva, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, , in Saturday’s governorship election, will adversely affect his electoral fortunes in Saturday’s polls.
“The original government provision in the PIB was to provide 10% for the Host Communities. I state hereunder the portion of the Bill which reads as follows; ‘A part of the original bill including; All upstream petroleum operators in onshore areas and in the offshore and shallow water areas will remit 10% of their net profit on a monthly basis to the PHC fund, while remittance relating to activities in deepwater areas will be for the Petroleum Producing Littoral States.
“You, as Minister of State Petroleum, Mele Kyari, the Group Managing Director of NNPCL and the IOCs officials visited the National Assembly where you agreed with the Senate on 3% instead of 10% or 5%. “The Bayelsa State government as published in the Guardian of Thursday July 15, 2021 protested to President Muhammadu Buhari on the revocation of the Atala Marginal Oil Field and its re-award to other non Niger Deltans.
“We still feel that the goodwill which existed between me and you and His Royal Majesty, King Edmund Daukoru of Nembe Kingdom, your former boss, still exist when I single-handedly contributed to your becoming the successor of then Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, when he became the running mate to late President Umaru Yar’adua in 2007.
“I am terribly disappointed that you have not stopped this brutal and violent approach to election. The statement made by your running mate in Brass during campaign has gone viral in the media that ‘anyone who misbehaves will be thrown into the river to drown,’ “some people will die, it’s not the first time people die in elections.’ You have not renounced the statement rather; you are trying to defend him. Too bad.
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