The Governor of Delta State, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa and his Sokoto State counterpart, Rt.
Hon. Aminu Tambuwal have said dialogue rather than violent agitations would
bring about speedy development of the country.
The two governors made the submission weekend in Asaba during
the second day of the Delta State Economic and Investment Summit.
According to the governors during the summit which was organised
as part of activities to celebrate the silver jubilee of the state’s creation,
the security challenges in the Niger Delta region in particular could not have
degenerated to the situation where the country was losing huge revenue as a
result of destruction of pipelines if the people involved had applied dialogue,
noting that the region has great potentials for growth when the resources of
the region is harnessed which can only be done in a peaceful environment.
“I bring you felicitations from the Nigeria Governors Forum on
your state’s silver jubilee celebration, Delta State is known for peace, and a
lot can be achieved when dialogue is applied; I want to call on the youths of
the Niger Delta Region to embrace dialogue and peace in their agitations, let
us have dialogue on the various issues affecting the region; we need peace and tranquility
in the country so that we can harness all our resources for development; I urge
the youths of the Niger Delta to engage the Federal Government through dialogue
so that solutions can be found,” Hon. Tambuwal said.
Governor Okowa on his part, said “we seek peaceful environment
from our people, so that a lot of development can take place; we need to
cooperate with ourselves so that we can right the wrongs of the past.”
“A lot of the investment community are ready to partner with us
to develop the state, but, we need to ensure that we sustain the peace and
security in our communities so that investors can come in; it is not wrong to
agitate but we can do that through dialogue, we will get better result when we
agitate through dialogue,” the governor emphasised.
He assured the people of the state especially the participants
of the summit that government would take all necessary measures to implement
its resolutions asserting, “the presentation at the summit gives us hope for
the future, this summit would not end up as a mere talk show, I have instructed
my executive council that all the suggestions and resolutions at this summit
should be brought up at a special Executive Council Meeting within the next two
weeks so that we can begin to implement them”
While commending all the participants especially the former
administrators and governors of the state for charting the way forward for the
state, the governor called for the cooperation of all to provide an enabling
environment for investment to thrive.
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