"Nigeria’s Crude Oil Belongs To The North" - Bugaje

Usman Bugaje, one of the lead speakers at the Northern Leaders’ Conference said that the crude oil in Nigeria belongs to the north and not the Niger Delta region.

ChannelsTv reported that Bugaje claimed it is wrong for any state to claim that it is oil producing because 72% of the total land mass in the country belonged to the North and that by the United Nation’s law; it is only the North that actually has the right to claim ownership.

According to Bugaje the only oil producing state is the Nigerian state itself. Going further to explain himself, the North chieftain said,"Whatever mileage you get in the sea, according to the United Nations Law of the sea, is a measure of the land mass that you have; that is what gives you the mileage into the sea…and the land mass of this country, that gives that long 200 nautical miles or more into the ocean, is because of that 72% of the land mass of this country, which is the North.

"The investment came from the Nigerian state and the territory belongs to the Nigerian state".