“I am aware that Edo state has the best wood around this part of the world and economic agents would want to explore this to the benefit of the state”, the governor stated.

He said, “The only true militants that I see are those who felt a sense of nationalism, because they felt the area, Niger Delta, not the nine states being touted as Niger Delta, have been oppressed and marginalised and decided to take up arms rightly or wrongly.”

So, all the palliative measures will come and at the end of the day, it will still not solve the problem. It is the development of the Niger Delta that is the solution to the problem,” she said.

Aregbesola is also seeking an order of the court to restrain Osun State government from arresting him in connection with the bomb blast that rocked the state secretariat, Abeere on July 14, 2007.

BY OLA AJAYI THE governorship candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party(ANPP) in Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi  has  said the state was unfortunate to have had a governor in person of  Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala who has made 22 futile foreign trips in the last two years. He challenged Akala to explain to the people  […]