The youths, on the aegis of Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, worldwide, said Bayelsa State was not considered in the promotion exercise in which the South-South was allocated 20 slots out of the 109 managers elevated to the position of General ManagersThe IYC wondered why Bayelsa State, with five qualified managers in the NNPC, would be left out of the promotion exercise in which Delta had 8, Cross River 4, Edo 4, Akwa Ibom 2 and Rivers 2.
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Spokesman of the IYC, Eric Omare, in a statement in Yenagoa, described the exercise as “totally condemnable and unacceptable as well as a deliberate attack on the Ijaw nation.”
He said: “Since assumption of office, President Buhari has been anti-Ijaw in his appointments in the deliberate exclusion of Bayelsa State from key federal appointments in fragrant violation of the federal character principle enshrined in the 1999 Constitution (as amended). It will be recalled that Buhari excluded Bayelsa State from his earlier appointment of Ambassadors. The IYC strongly feels that these actions are being taken to punish the Ijaw and Bayelsa people because of former President Jonathan who is an Ijaw and from Bayelsa State.
“The recent NNPC promotion exercise is one oppressive decision too many and very provocative considering the fact that the NNPC exists because of the oil resources found in Ijaw land. Buhari’s policy of exclusion must stop for Nigeria to make progress. The Ijaw people are being pushed to the wall and we may be forced to act. We demand that this oppressive and lopsided promotion in the NNPC against the Ijaw people should be immediately corrected in the interest of peace in Nigeria.”
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