Ogoni people in the four Local Government Areas of Khana, Gokana, Tai and Eleme of Rivers State have declared that they will never allow resumption of oil production in the marginalised area, without broad-based discussion with the masses of Ogoni people.

Former Rivers state governor now Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, who served as the campaign director for President Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo during the 2015 election, says he could have been killed just the way the late environmentalist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, was killed for fighting for the liberation of Ogoni people. Saro-Wiwa was hanged in November 1995 in very controversial circumstances.