Soyinka Among Team To Negotiate With Niger Delta Avengers

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has been chosen by the Niger Delta Avengers militant group as one of the members of its dialogue group in the proposed dialogue with the federal government.

Ballantyne Agiri, the spokesman for the Dialogue Group, made this known to the New Telegraph on Tuesday.

Agiri hinted that the militants had set up a dialogue group to engage the Federal Government in meaningful dialogue as part of the initiatives to end the crisis rocking the Niger Delta region.

He noted that the Nobel Laureate was chosen because of the track records as a freedom fighter as well as a credible and detribalized personality.

According to Agiri, the leadership of the militant group has for months been looking for credible persons who are capable of standing for them and present their grievances before the federal government.