2023: Adopt Ibori’s ‘Peace Initiative in Warri’ -Oboko Tells Delta Guber Candidates

President of the Federated Niger Delta Ijaw Communities (FNDIC), Chief Bello Oboko has appealed to the governorship candidates of Delta state to adopt and expand on the “roadmap to peace in Warri ” negotiated by the former governor James Ibori.

He retorted that Ibori’s model of peace was an effective model for state-wide peace.

Oboko faulted the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in the State, Rt. Hon. Ovie Omo-Agege, who recently visited Atuwatse III, the Olu of Warri, and said that he would restore the lost glory of Warri.

The FNDIC president added that for Warri and Delta State to emerge with lasting peace and glory, the electorate in Delta must domesticate and heed Rev. William F. Kumuyi’s recent advice to voters to “consider their future before voting.”

He said Omo-Agege who was Secretary to the State Government (SSG) when Ibori initiated the “roadmap to peace in Warri should have understood the diversity and complicity of Warri before making sectional and incisive statements”

His words, “May I take this opportunity to appeal to all Deltans, especially politicians running in the general elections of 2023, and in particular DSP Ovie Omo-Agege, not to renege in putting more efforts toward the realization of the enduring Delta State instrument of peace calling for structural balance in the hierarchy/polity.

“We stand on the Warri Roadmap to Peace.” Warri youths are wary of avoidable wars”, Oboko stressed, admonishing: “Under the Warri roadmap to peace, we expect politicians to conduct themselves in a way and manner that shall guarantee zoning and constitution-compliant federal character application. Politicians should do well to consolidate gains and credibility of Delta State’s roadmap to peace in Warri architecture to which then Delta State House of Assembly expressed commitment.”

He maintained “come 2023, the electorate should only cast their votes for candidates with experience in peacebuilding, quality service delivery and vote, right in affirmation, at least, of the Niger Delta struggle for a future of equal political space, democracy and resource control, fiscal federalism and environmental justice.”