No more division  —  Magnus Abe thanks Tinubu for uniting Ogoni people

Former governorship campaigner of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) successful Rivers State, Magnus Abe, has expressed gratitude to President Bola Tinubu for honouring the precocious Ogoni Four, describing the determination arsenic a unifying infinitesimal for the radical of the state.

Abe made the remarks connected Wednesday during an interrogation connected Politics Today, a Channels Television programme, portion reacting to the conferment of nationalist honours connected the precocious Ogoni leaders.

“What happened contiguous is to yet recognise these 4 outstanding Ogoni leaders — late Chief Edward Kobani, Chief Samuel Orage, Chief Theophilus Orage, and Mr. Albert Badey, the erstwhile Secretary to the Government of Rivers State. It was a defining infinitesimal successful that struggle, and we are each precise grateful to President Tinubu for taking that historical measurement to bring our radical unneurotic successful bid to yet enactment the demons of the past down us. We’re precise grateful,” Abe said.

Earlier connected Wednesday, President Tinubu conferred posthumous nationalist honours of the Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) connected the 4 leaders during a ceremonial astatine the State House, Abuja.

The President, portion receiving the study of the Ogoni Consultations Committee, urged Ogoniland to clasp reconciliation and unity aft decades of division.

The designation comes 16 months aft Tinubu pledged, successful May 2024, to “pursue diligently and honourably” the Ogoni cleanup task and grow empowerment programmes to payment much indigenes of the oil-rich community.

Abe stressed that Tinubu’s motion had gone beyond symbolism, noting that it had healed wounds and restored corporate pridefulness among the Ogoni people.

““We are each unneurotic now. We don’t privation to person that part anymore. With the steps the President has taken, we judge the crushed is yet acceptable for the takeoff of a caller Ogoni,” the erstwhile legislator said.

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