In keeping with his avowed commitment to striving for the overall growth of all Nigerians irrespective of their ethnic and religious affiliations, President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in Abuja approved several actions to fast-track the long delayed implementation of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) Report on the environmental restoration of Ogoniland.

Ogoniland; located on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea has suffered environmental degradation and severe human rights violation over the years since the discovery of viable oil fields as far back as 1956.

While commending the latest development, the APC in a statement signed by the Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, and made available to CEOAFRICA in Port Harcourt, said that by so doing President Buhari, though not from the region, has proved to be a better son of Rivers State and the Niger Delta than immediate past president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, and Rivers State Caretaker Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike.

“The news of President Buhari not only directing the cleaning up of Ogoni land but also the fast-tracking of the process came to us as a great relief particularly considering the fact that former President Jonathan in demonstration of his hatred and disdain for Rivers State and her people ensured that this exercise did not see the light of the day throughout his ill-fated regime which was more of a curse to Rivers State people and the Niger Delta region,” Rivers APC said.

“President Buhari has demonstrated by this act that he is a better son of Rivers State and the long-suffering Niger Delta than Dr. Jonathan and Chief Wike who, though from the region, instead teamed up to ensure that the region was under-developed and even ceded our oil wells to other states while also ensuring that no Federal Government presence was felt in Rivers State throughout their evil regime,” the party said.

The Rivers State APC commended and congratulated President Buhari “for this brave and patriotic step in cleaning up Ogoni land,” assuring him and the National APC Leadership that it would do everything
constitutionally possible to get the impostor called Chief Nyesom Wike out of the Rivers State Government House to appreciate and compensate President Buhari for his love for the people of the State.

This development once again proves that Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi was very right in mobilising us and the entire Nigerians to vote for President Buhari during the March 28th, 2015 Presidential polls as President Buhari has proved that he is truly a God-Gift to Nigeria at this particular time to right the wrongs, injustice and wickedness Rivers State and Niger Delta suffered under the regime of Dr Jonathan Goodluck.

The environmental clean-up of Ogoniland is expected to commence in earnest with the President's inauguration of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Restoration Project (HYPREP) to reflect a new governance framework comprising a Governing Council, a Board of Trustees and Project Management.