Urhobo Youth Group Reaffirms Support For Buhari’s Reelection Bid, Emerhor Leadership Of Delta APC

…demand Payment Of 13 Percent through presidential derivation committee

The group, Urhobo Youth Assembly has reaffirmed its support for President Muhammadu Buhari reelection bid.

The group drawn from the 23 Kingdoms spread across the eight Urhobo speaking Local Government Councils of Delta Central including Urhobos in Warri South, Bomadi and Patani also canvasses support for Olorogun O’tega Emerhor’s leadership of the Delta State APC.

This was contained in a statement after its crucial emergency national meeting held in Ughelli over the weekend.

The meeting was convened to review the state of the nation, the rescheduled 2019 general elections, the State of Nigeria Economy and the place of the Urhobo ethnic nationality in the Nigerian Project.

Signed by Comrade Jude Akpore, National President (UYA) and Comrade Frank Onogagamue, National Secretary (UYA), the statement commended President Buhari-led administration for ensure that the Urhobo tribe is adequately positioned in the national scheme of things to compensate for her petro-dollar contribution from the over 26 notable oil and gas flow stations.

The over 2,000 delegates in attendance at the meeting, according to the statement, however expressed satisfaction with Buhari’s appointments to Urhobo Indigenes in several places, saying with their over 500,000 votes for President Buhari “we believe that with greater vote support, the Urhobos will get more lucrative positions in the next dispensation”.

The group also commended Mr. President for States of infrastructure in Urhoboland, saying “we thanked the President for ongoing projects at the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, the Ewu-Agbor-Abraka-Eku-Amukpe road project, the massive transformation ongoing at the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), the Ajaokuta-Agbor-Aladja Rail Project are all commendable but we urged the APC-led Federal Government to re-doubled its efforts to ensure that more visible, infrastructural facilities are located within the land space of the Urhobo Nation.

Furthermore, the statement said, “The meeting exhaustively discussed the leadership of Olorogun Otega Emerhor as the leader of the APC in Delta State and the Congress resolved that his non violent approach to issues of political emancipation is rear model that political leaders should imbibe even in the midst of provocation”.

According to them, “Olorogun Emerhor pedigree as a thorough breed Urhobo son and a Frontline technocrat is today a blessing to Urhobo nation in particular and the Nigeria state in general.

“The Congress resolve further that all Olorogun Emerhor desire now is massive grassroots support which we promised will give him 100%.

“On the controversy surrounding the application and the massive fraud that has be-deviled the implementation of the 13 percent Derivation Funds leading to outright mismanagement and embezzlement of over N8trillion in the past eighteen years, the Congress therefore resolved that in the spirit of fighting the huge Corruption cankeworm in the Country, the Federal Government must stop forthwith further allocation of 13 percent Derivation Funds to the Governors of the Oil/Gas bearing States of the Federation and instead pay the Fund directly to the Presidential /State Implementation Committees as currently proposed by the Host Communities of Nigeria (HOSCON)”.