IYC President, Mr. Udengs Eradiri, gave the warning at a news conference at the Ijaw House, Yenagoa, as part of activities to celebrate this year’s Isaac Boro Day.
Many shops in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital, were shut on Monday following a directive by the IYC that shop owners should not open for business as a mark of honour for Boro.
Eradiri’s warning came barely five days after the Niger Delta Avengers listed some oil blocs allegedly owned by former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar; former Minister of Defence, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma; Ex-Minister of Petroleum, Alhaji Riwalnu Lukman, other Northerners and South-Westerners in the region.
The NDA had among others issued them a two-week ultimatum to shut down operations at the oil blocs and evacuate the workers from the locations or have them attacked.
Eradiri said that most of the indiscriminate sharing of oil blocs were allegedly carried out when Buhari served as Petroleum Minister or Head of State.
He accused the President of denying Niger Delta people ownership of oil blocs at the time while allegedly allocating same to his kinsmen and their cronies like a bazaar.
He said, “One of the most salient issues that if not addressed will lead to more crisis is the issue of the oil blocs.
“President Buhari was one time Petroleum Minister and Head of State in this country. Let us go and do an assessment of that time. The time when criminally they shared our oil blocs was under his watch either as Petroleum Minister or as Head of State. It is in one of those times.
“Oil blocs were shared to one group. Look at it, either the person (owner of oil bloc) was a former military president or relative of the military president or an in-law to a military president.”
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