Delta Community Protests, Petitions Oborevwori, PDP Over alleged Marginalisation
Afimag.com –
The People of Nsukwa in Aniocha South Local Government Area, Delta State, have on October 14, 2023, staged a peaceful protest to register their grievances over what they described as marginalisation by successive governments.
The people, under the auspices of Concerned Youths for the Political Liberation of Aniocha South berated the state governor for not accommodating any member of the community in his cabinet and poor infrastructural development.
They called on Governor Sheriff Oborevwori to look into the current political abnormality and inequality in the local government being melted on the Community.
The group who was represented by Mr Andrew Okolie, Okpor Idioms and Obodo Kester complained about the negligence on the Nsukwa Clan in areas of infrastructures, political appointments over the years.
They said, “We are the concerned youths for the political liberation of Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State.
“We wish to bring to the knowledge of Governor Oborevwori about the current political anomaly and imbalance in the council areas which is threatening our democracy.
“Aniocha South is made of three distinctive Clans; Ogwashi, Ubulu and Nsukwa. But presently Nsukwa Clan has been completely shortchanged and emasculated despite working so hard to deliver PDP in the last elections despite the incursion of Labour Party.
“We have written petition to the leadership of PDP both at the local government and state level to address the imbalance but we have not heard from them.
“We also wrote petition to Governor Sheriff Oborevwori over the matter but yet to hear from him, that is why we decided to speak to journalists to ensure that the governor hear our cry.
“We are one PDP family, supported the party even more than other clans especially in this 2023 election but we have not enjoy the dividend of democracy since the beginning despite voting massively to the party.
“The three Clans used to share the three offices; House of Assembly, Commissioner and Chairmanship slots in no special order.
“As we speak, Ubulu-Uku is holding commissioner and chairmanship slots while Ogwashi-Uku is holding House of Assembly seat.
“We calling on the governor who is a product of zoing and power rotation Delta PDP has been known since the return of democracy in 1999, to zone Chairmanship slot to Nsukwa.