FORMER President of the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) Worldwide, Udengs Eradiri, has called on the people of the region to vote out current members representing them in the National Assembly in the 2019 general election. He described the region’s representatives in the National Assembly as insensitive, self-serving and incompetent, insisting that they have no business in the assembly, adding that there was no commonsense in reducing budgetary allocations for critical projects in a region which produces resources to finance the entire budget.
Eradiri said the actions of the lawmakers were provocative, sad and painful, adding that the representatives were the real problems of the Niger Delta. He said it was obvious that the Federal Government and President Muhammadu Buhari meant well for the South-South and South-East regions. Eradiri said the region was particularly pained by the reform’s real reductions of budgetary allocations for the East-West road and the Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State.
He said: ” It is unacceptable. This goes further to expose the kind of leadership that we have. I have further come to the conviction that the Federal Government is actually not our problem but our own people are our problems. “Where were our senators and our representatives from the Niger Delta when the budget went through the House? How come they don’t have a caucus that could look at those items that concern the Niger Delta and ensure that the are funded to better the lives of our people? “Niger Delta people are their own problems. What are the qualities of individuals they send to represent us? They cannot defend our people. They have no business in the National Assembly. Niger Delta people must vote out such individuals.”