Follow the link and check out the press report – very instructive debate, but no mention of the relatively extreme development deficit of the region...and the need to fill that deficit soon.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/204484.html
Press TV
14 October 2011
Written by Turaki A. Hassan
Jonathan comes from Bayelsa in Nigeria ' s Niger Delta. The denial was included in a statement issued by the President' s special adviser on media and communication.
The statement says the projects listed were initiated by Mr.Jonathan' s predecessor late Umaru Yar Adua, and were all contained in an appropriation act passed by Nigeria ' s National Assembly.
A newspaper report had carried a publication by the Bureau for Public Procurement which listed the Niger Delta projects totaling about 86% of project approval made between March and August 2011 by the Federal Executive Council Nigeria' s highest administrative and decision making body in the executive arm.
The listing showed considerable disparity between projects approved for the Niger Delta and the rest of other parts of Nigeria .
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