There are strong indications that the people of the Niger Delta region are forging ahead with their quest for self-determination and insistence on exercising control over natural resources found in their territory.
Already, the Niger Delta Congress (NDC) has confirmed that the signing of the Niger Delta Peoples Charter will start on Monday, November 1, 2021.
The spokesman of NDC, Mr. Ovunda Eni, disclosed this on Tuesday.
The coalition of regional bodies put all the ethnic nationalities of the six states in the South-South on notice.
Eni recalled the conference held on October 8 at the Ijaw House Complex in Yenegoa, the Bayelsa capital.
He explained that the draft copy of the Niger Delta Peoples Charter was unanimously adopted as a working document.
The NDC has now concluded the harmonisation process of all recommendations forwarded to the secretariat.
“It is our firm belief that this Charter will lay the foundation for the processes that will birth a new future,” Eni noted.
The NDC said the aim is to unite the people “towards achieving shared hopes and aspirations of resource control and self-determination.”
The organisation charged the people not to be fazed by insecurity and other challenges in Nigeria.
He told them to anticipate the arrival of the Charter in their communities, urging them to actively take part in the mass signing.