{"id":8603,"date":"2016-04-10T10:26:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T10:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=8603"},"modified":"2016-04-10T10:26:35","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T10:26:35","slug":"why-niger-delta-governors-should-revive-resource-control-struggle-prof-darah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=8603","title":{"rendered":"Why Niger Delta governors should revive resource control struggle – Prof. Darah"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Erudite scholar and a former Chief of Staff, Government House, Delta State, Prof. Gabriel Darah, has challenged governors of the Niger Delta states to revive the struggle for resource control and fiscal federalism.<\/p>\n

He also asked members of the state House of Assembly and the National Assembly from the region to join forces with the governors to rekindle the agitation for resource control and self-determination.<\/p>\n

\"Niger<\/a>Darah, a professor of English at the Delta State University, Abraka, noted that the last time governors of the region actively engaged the Federal Government over issues of fiscal federalism and resource control was between 1999 and 2003.<\/p>\n

Darah spoke on Thursday in Yenagoa as a guest lecturer at a public lecture, with the theme, \u201cFederalism and Development in Nigeria\u201d, organised by the Bayelsa State Government as part of activities for the funeral rites of the late former governor of the state, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNiger Delta governors and legislators must come together and revive the resource control struggle, like it used to be during the time of Alamieyeseigha as governor of Bayelsa,\u201d the don stated.<\/p>\n

The former Chairman of the Editorial Board of The Guardian<\/em> Newspaper stated that it was only through the struggle that the Niger Delta minorities had been accorded recognition in the Nigerian state.<\/p>\n

He noted that despite the impeachment of Alamieyeseigha as governor, the struggle for resource control over the years had changed the colour of politics in Nigeria in favour of the minorities.<\/p>\n

Darah said one of the greatest concessions the agitation for resource control brought to the region was the ascendancy of the Presidency by former President Goodluck Jonathan.<\/p>\n

He stated, \u201cThe struggle for resource control has transformed politics in Nigeria. The struggle has also influenced government in many ways, the impeachment of Alamieyeseigha notwithstanding.\u201d<\/p>\n

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