Port Harcourt — The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, MOSOP, has said that those persons who claimed to represent the Ogoni people in a meeting with President Bola Tinubu on oil exploration resumption in Ogoniland, lack the mandate of the Ogoni people.
This is as some group of Ogoni leaders had recently met with President Tinubu over talks on planned oil resumption in Ogoniland.
But MOSOP President, Fegalo Nsuke, who faulted the meeting, described as the misrepresentation of the ongoing process for oil exploration resumption in Ogoniland to President Bola Tinubu, accusing those who met with Tinubu as persons with selfish motives falsely presenting themselves as the drivers of the process.
Nsuke who made the allegation in a statement after the group’s emergency meeting in Port Harcourt, described the action as economic sabotage, accusing the representatives as impersonators.
The Ogoni leader described those who claimed to represent the Ogoni people as paid chiefs driven by selfish interests, which contradicts the expectations of the Ogoni people on the development aspect of oil resumption.
The MOSOP boss who noted that those present at the meeting did not speak for MOSOP, called for a fair and just treatment of the Ogoni people through the operationalization of the Ogoni Development Authority proposed to the government as an acceptable pathway to the resolution of the Ogoni problem.
He said that MOSOP would continue to pursue its goals as the only mandated voice of the Ogoni people based on the Ogoni Bill of Rights, which states that MOSOP has the mandate “to make representations on behalf of the Ogoni ethnic nationality.”
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