South-South indigenes have called on President Bola Tinubu, the National Assembly, the governors, PANDEF, and other like-minded associations in the Niger Delta, to support the call for the restoration of Rivers State share of the federal allocation.

They said Rivers State has supported Nigeria with oil revenue and it would be unjust to deprive the state of its resources.

The indigenes under the aegis of South-South Renewed Call 4 Resource Control (SSRC-4RC) also called for enactment of the enabling laws for resource control.

Dr. Omereji Amadi, Director, Strategy of the group in a statement pleaded that President Tinubu should play the statesman’s role and do what is needed in the case of Rivers State.

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Daily Trust reports that a federal high court recently stopped the allocation to the state, a new dimension to the crisis between Governor Sim Fubara and his predecessor, Nyesome Wike.

“An ominous cloud hangs over the nation today due to the unjust denial of the people of Rivers State of what is due to them from the federal purse.

“Rivers State and its people have provided Nigeria with oil wealth for over half a century. Still, the people of Rivers State are being denied what is rightfully theirs: their merited federal allocation.

“We do not think it is suitable for the people of Rivers State to suffer such economic deprivation to appease the bloated ego of one individual, Mr. Nyesom Wike.

“All well-meaning Nigerians who followed the genesis of this problem had thought that wise counsel would prevail. That narrow-minded political gamesmanship would not be allowed to overshadow the overall interest of a very strategic state and the nation.

“A time like this, calls for statesmanship in leadership; the overall interest of the nation must prevail over parochial political or individual interest.