I’m happy oil discovery in Bauchi, Gombe will cut Niger-Delta political power: Buhari

“…but we thank God that oil is now discovered in Bauchi and Gombe and that will help to balance the politics of oil in the country,” Mr Buhari said.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said that the newly discovered oil in Bauchi and Gombe will help balance the “politics of oil” across the country. Mr Buhari was referring to the Niger Delta’s perceived political power arising from its rich petroleum deposit.

“Now oil has almost become irrelevant, but we thank God that oil is now discovered in Bauchi and Gombe and that will help to balance the politics of oil in the country,” Mr Buhari said.

The president of the federal republic made the statement in Maiduguri, Borno State, while commissioning projects completed by Governor Babagana Zulum in the northeastern state.

Mr Buhari has been widely accused of cheerleading sectionalism in favour of his northern base. Nonetheless, the region has suffered the most in terms of insecurity and mass poverty under his watch.

In August, Mr Buhari ignored outcry by southern governors, lawmakers and oil-bearing communities to sign the Petroleum Industry Bill into law.

Southern governors, legislators and oil-bearing host communities had kicked against the National Assembly’s decision to allocate a paltry three per cent of oil revenues to the host communities.

Opposition party Peoples Democratic Party also described the bill as a “shame to democracy, disregard for the will of the people, and insensitivity to the sufferings of the Niger Delta peoples.”

But Mr Buhari promptly assented to the bill after the National Assembly passed it amid much acrimony.

On Friday, Mr Buhari assured that the federal government, amidst economic hardship, rising poverty, and public outcry for equity, will make developing the new oil sites its priority.

“We will quickly develop that and we are putting pipelines across the country to cut the use of vehicles destroying roads. Within the next 17 months, Nigerians should be able to judge what this administration has done under my leadership when we came in terms of security, the economy, and the most difficult one which is fighting corruption,” Mr Buhari said.

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I’m happy oil discovery in Bauchi, Gombe will cut Niger-Delta political power: Buhari






“…but we thank God that oil is now discovered in Bauchi and Gombe and that will help to balance the politics of oil in the country,” Mr Buhari said.



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Lalasticlala

How can the president open his mouth and say this kin provocating word

If not for the pollution it will cause, I wont have mind if the militants can unleash hell on every oil installation, make we see how Bauchi and Gombe oil go dey carry the 36 states and FCT.

If only Southern Politicians and some Politicians in the middle belt can sit together and agree to expel almost all the states in the North East and North West from Nigeria or make we leave the name Nigeria for them.

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Now that oil has been discovered in the northerner states.

can we now go back to regional government?
Thank God we have 6 regions

Nothing to balance here except the 13% Derivation which has even been taken away through PIA

3minssex:


13% taken away in which world?

Too many illiterates on this forum. Oil producing states still get their 13% derivation share. That 3% in the bill is for oil producing communities.

Can a reasonable President say this? This useless and shameless man has destroyed the little unity we had in this country. An old dying man has decided to take the country along with him.

Very annoying and ill-adviced statement! There'd be no 'politics of oyel' if everyone was allowed to own/control the resources found in their domain, as should be the case in a true federal set-up!

Gas is the future Mr President.

Let's see if you go see gas in sokoto

What is this

Buhari's incendiary remarks show he is against nigeria's unity. He is a pretending president

I don't think the president said this.

No, I doubt it.

He is a useless president but it can't be this bad.

A president cannot say this.
Haba.

Imagine! What a careless statement from a president of a country

The problem with Buhari is that he talks before he thinks.

Very anyhow and unreasonable president with a lose tongue.

Tufiakwa

CSTRR:
I don't think the president said this.

No, I doubt it.

He is a useless president but it can't be this bad.

A president cannot say this.
Haba.

We are talking about Muhammadu Buhari here. The man that went on International TV to say that his wife, the FIRST LADY of this Country BELONGS to the Oza room.

Guy, Nigeria right now, is the worst country on Earth and the President might be the must incompetent in the history of the universe.

The president didn't say it....

Congrats

We wait Nigeria in our NATURAL GAS.

The era of crude oil is almost gone, welcome to the era of GAS!
Igbo will finally teach Nigeria and Britain bitter lessons they will not forget in 500years to come.

I laugh in Swahili. Fake news
Which oil ? Groundnut or PalmOil

Geological survey has already revealed that this region has no iota of substantial crude deposits.
They will have to wait for another formation cycle to reach such levels, upwards of a 1000 years.
North should stop fooling itself and embrace secession as the solution to their parasitism.

Unlike the lieing North, huge Natural Gas deposits have actually been discovered in South East around the Imo - Anambra corner.

Do you see the news anywhere ? None at all.
The Nigerian Government and her agencies are announcing redacted reports that leave out the locations of these transformative resources.
Nevertheless we Indigenes know the truth.

Infact Foreign Oil Companies are sparing no expense in partaking in this new discovery.
Billionaire Arthur Eze recently sold lands worth billions of dollars to Total Energy.

There is no oil in bauchi and gwombe

Buhari and these Flatt headed poeple is five 5&6 in the show of hatred and unending envyness . As am seen it .It will be very diffiult for bubu to give political power to Igbos,Give Kanu freedom or allow Biafra to come in reality. Though Flatt headed poeple too are full of hatred and Insults . They failed to realise what is their problems but resulted in personal attack to every other Tribes in Nigeria. They always established on how to damage others but failed to build theirs politically.

Nonsense and it's ingredients... maybe they discovered groundnut oil

Sammy07:
Now that oil has been discovered in the northerner states.

can we now go back to regional government?
Thank God we have 6 regions

Are you a learner? Nigeria can only go back to nation states period.

Super story

Na lie oooh

So can the division start now? There is nothing statemanly about this failed president-always sounding mentally deranged in all his statements.

I know the Effigy is braindead, but this level of stupidity is not achievable even by a goat suffering from Down Syndrome.

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Fffffffffuuuuuuuulllllllllll


Can u now let them go?

“Now oil has almost become irrelevant, but we thank God that oil is now discovered in Bauchi and Gombe and that will help to balance the politics of oil in the country,” Mr Buhari said.


The president is wrong for using this words