•Urges N’Delta Avengers to embrace peace

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Chief Sunny Onesoke, has lashed out at the Niger Delta Avengers which claims responsibility for recent attacks on oil pipelines in the Niger Delta.

Rather than destroying pipelines and sabotaging the economy of the country, Onuesoke advised the group to embrace peace by going into negotiation with the Federal Government on the possibility of passing the Petroleum Industrial Bill (PIB) and withdrawal of oil blocks from their owners in order  to create a balance. He  viewed the acts of vandalism by the militants as economic sabotage capable of  stunting oil production and electricity generation in the country.

Onuesoke, who described the re-emergence of militancy in the Niger Delta as a sad development and a threat to the unity and progress of the nation, said, “We condemn in its totality the recent attack on Chevron’s oil facility and wish to advise the perpetrators of the dastardly act to embrace the amnesty programme”.

He argued that it would be out place for the militants from the Niger Delta  to destroy pipelines which  consequence is the degradation of farmlands, pollution of water amid other effects on the environment.