Six governors from the South-west will be meeting with senators and House of representatives from the region in Abuja on Tuesday to discuss the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill and the Electoral Act Amendment Bill which will be debated during plenary on Tuesday.
A notice about the meeting was announced by Senator Opeyemi Bamidele and Hon. Olufemi Fakeye on Monday.
The notice read; ‘Urgent Meeting Of South West Governors With Senators And Hon. Members From The South West’.
“Dear Distinguished Senators and Honourable Members; We are directed by the Leadership of the South West Caucus in the National Assembly to communicate the invitation of South West Governors to an urgent meeting of the Governors with Distinguished Senators and Hon. Members of the House of Representatives as follows:
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“Date: Tuesday, 6th July 2021. Time: 7 pm, Venue: Osun Hall, Transcorp Hilton, Maitama, Abuja.”.
This meeting is coming a day after Southern governors met in Lagos and unanimously rejected the Electoral bill and the Petroleum Industry Bill.
The Petroleum bill was rejected over its proposed allocation of at least 30 percent of the profit generated by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited for the exploration of oil in ‘frontier basins’ as identified by Section 9 of the recently passed PIB.
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Frontier basins include; Chad Basin, Gongola Basin, Sokoto Basin, Dahomey Basin, Bida Basin, Benue Trough, amongst others. Meanwhile, crude oil is obtained from eight states in the Niger Delta region which include: Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo, and the Rivers States.
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