South-South Peoples Assembly, FG Set for Showdown.

South-South Peoples Assembly (SSPA) leaders and federal government may be heading for a showdown over government's post-amnesty plan, the Petroleum Industry Bill, and the lopsided promotion of people in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

Rising from a meeting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, yesterday, the leaders threatened to give a damning verdict and take hard-line postures should President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua fail to heed the call for the reversal of the continued marginalization of the people of the Niger Delta.

The forum, led by Chief Edwin Clarke, demanded that the oil and gas resources in the area must be controlled by indigenes of the area.