Bayelsa State governor, Mr Seriake Dickson, has renewed his call for a multi-party committee, towards harmonizing critical areas of agreement to enable the All Progressives Congress, APC-led Federal Government facilitate the presentation of the necessary bills that could bring about a restructured Nigeria.

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Dickson made the call when he received the report of the Committee on Restructuring and other matters affecting the Ijaw nation in Yenagoa.

Dickson, in a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Francis Ottah Agbo said: “With the support of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and other political parties, the Federal Government can push through, in the quickest time possible, before the next general election, the necessary bills that can bring about a restructured Nigeria.”

On the report of the restructuring committee, Dickson said, despite the huge oil revenues the country has earned from the Niger Delta over the years, areas such as Brass, Forcados, Ogulagha and Bonny where crude oil terminals are located, remain inaccessible by road.

“We have never lost faith in this country and the statistics that you have brought out shows clearly all those stories of our sacrifices and commitment to Nigeria.

“You said LNG alone has generated over N11 billion in the last 10 years and you are working with their own figures.

“You said also that from oil revenues from our territory that Nigeria has earned over N96 trillion and you say this country makes over N52 billion daily and yet, in the midst of this sacrifice, even as we speak, there is no road to the terminals from which this money is made.”