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Nigeria National Petroleum
Corporation, NNPC, has invited Itsekiri and Ijaw leaders in Delta State to a
meeting in Abuja over the contentious ownership of the $16 billion Export
Processing Zone, EPZ, project site.
President Goodluck Jonathan abruptly
cancelled his visit to Delta State to perform the ground breaking ceremony,
renamed Delta Gas City by the Federal Government, on Friday, following a threat
by the Ijaw’s of Gbaramatu Kingdom to unleash violence if there grievances was
not resolved.
It was the second time President Jonathan
is cancelling the ground breaking ceremony, having done so in June, based on
the same reasons advanced by the Ijaw’s.
Secretary of the Leaders of Thought Edward
Ekpoko, confirmed to newsmen that he was aware of the meeting scheduled for Monday
17th November 2014.
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