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By Celestine Okafor
Saturday, October 23, 2004
POLITICAL leaders of the South- South geo-political zone have called on the governors of the North to reconsider their refusal to accept a political option in the settlement of the oil dichotomy suit recently lodged before the Supreme Court in the interest of peace in the country.
The leaders in their reactions to the legal challenge initiated by the Northern governors, unanimously stated that though the governors are free to take their case, to at the apex court, they should be disposed to a political resolution of the contentious issue. The leaders’ position was in apparent response to the media reports, Tuesday, in which Governor Mohammed Adamu Aliero of Kebbi State said that the governors of the North have chosen to stick to a judicial interpretation of the case by going "back to the apex court to get this matter sorted out once and for all."
Speaking to Weekend Vanguard, Wednesday, Bayelsa State governor, Chief Deprieye Alamieseigha maintained that the South-South zone would not be intimidated by "any threat of legal action on account of the on-shore/off-shore oil saga as our zone is convinced that our position on this matter is absolutely justified." He appealed to his Northern colleagues to understand the peculiar problem of his zone arising from oil prospection in the area and reason with them, arguing that a politica
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