The Niger Delta Progressive Youths League has expressed dismay over the marketing campaign of calumny and pointless blackmail towards the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu.
In an announcement issued on Saturday by its Nationwide President, Comrade Ebiegberi Jonathan, the group stated it was not oblivious to the truth that the fictional articles had been sparsely circulated by a couple of patrons of yellow journalism, maliciously linking Edu to the monetary misappropriation on the Nationwide Social Funding Programme Company, NSIPA.
It described it as a diversionary tactic by a set of people who’re irked by Edu’s transparency and audacity in revealing the rot in NSIPA, which has been useful within the investigation by the anti-graft company.
It famous: “The Management of the Niger Delta Progressive Youths League notes with utter dismay the marketing campaign of calumny, media brigandism, and pointless blackmail towards our daughter, Dr Betta Edu, by some rabble-rousers from a specific part of the nation that feels the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation is their unique protect.
“Extra so, we’re significantly bemused {that a} specific part of the nation feels {that a} Southerner, not to mention one from the Niger Delta area, can’t head the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, therefore the inglorious try and frustrate the superb effort of the honourable minister and in the end blackmail her out of workplace, to serve their ethnocentric agenda.”
It maintained that the folks of the Niger Delta are strongly behind Edu and are pleased with her efficiency as minister so far.
The group added: “As a folks, we frown at any try and unnecessarily blackmail, distract and warp the nice work the honourable minister is doing in pursuing the Renewed Hope Agenda of Nigeria President.”
The group harassed that there isn’t a doubt concerning the minister’s capacity to ship, as her monitor document from her days as Director Common of Main Healthcare and later, Commissioner for Well being in Cross River State, bears testomony to her ardour, sacrifice and selflessness in the direction of the downtrodden and the poor.