This formed part of the resolutions reached at the meeting of the South-South Governors’ Forum held on Monday at the Government House in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
Delta State Governor and Chairman of the forum, Ifeanyi Okowa, who disclosed this while briefing reporters at the end of the closed-door meeting, said the governors also resolved to approve the establishment of a regional security outfit to be launched “very soon”.
The governors appealed to the National Assembly to immediately review and amend sections of the recently enacted Petroleum Industrial Act.
The forum while calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to respect the law establishing the Nigeria Delta Development Commission (NDDC) by appointing a substantive board, demanded that the report of the forensic audit of the agency recently submitted to the President be made public.
On the management of the nation’s economy, the governors called for the relocation of the headquarters of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and head offices of international oil companies to the states in the Niger Delta region.
Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade, was the only Governor absent at the meeting.
