Re: Shall We Tell The Vice President?Re: Shall We Tell The Vice President?
Last week this column credited a statement about different interest
group visiting vee-pee from N/Delta to Ima Niboro, the Vice-President's
spokes person.
He was quoted out of context, not with the writer, but in an interview
with a newspaper, that “I am comforted by the knowledge that many
leaders of the N/Delta across the broadcast spectrums have been carried
along on the issue concerning the summit. Various groups have been
hosted in this office in order to chart a way forward for the Niger
Delta. But you know the N/Delta has a wide range of ethnic and
sub-ethnic groups, so, it might have been difficult to speak to
everyone. Such an enterprise would have taken more than a year to
achieve. But even at that, when the Vice President was meeting the
various groups almost on a weekly basis, there were already snide
remarks that he was carrying on as V.P of Nigeria.
The underline intention of the opinion was to highlight the factors
vee-pee is facing on N/Delta issue, for critics to better appreciate
the challenges he's facing.
Any inconveniency caused to the person of Niboro his regretted.
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