The Reformed Niger Delta Avengers (RNDA), a group of ex-militants, has condemned the threat by the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) to resume attacks on oil facilities and bomb pipelines across the Niger Delta if President Muhammadu Buhari is reelected.
The ex-militant leaders
alleged that the threat by the Niger Delta Avengers is sponsored by an
unnamed ex-militant leader from Delta State “in order to cover his sins
as outlined against him by the Federal Government”.
The RNDA, led
by Major General John Mark Ezonebi, a.k.a. Obama, after a crucial
meeting with all unit commanders from across the Niger Delta region in
the creeks of Delta State at Benin River to appraise burning national
issues, including the purported endorsement of Atiku Abubakar, the
presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), urged
President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led
administration to disregard the purported threat made by the NDA.
According to the group, the threat by NDA is a show of cowardice.
The
statement read: “It is now clear to the world, Nigerians and the people
of the Niger Delta region that the NDA is being sponsored by some
corrupt elements of the failed PDP who looted the nation’s treasury dry
and it is obvious to us that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who
is the presidential candidate of the ‘Peoples Demonizing Party’ is one
of the sponsors of the activities of the moribund NDA in the creeks
following their endorsement of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
“To this end,
the RNDA has warned the so-called self-acclaimed high command of the
NDA, who is a fugitive ex-militant leader that is hiding in the creeks
of Delta State, and its scanty members of the moribund NDA group to
desist from their proposed threat claiming that if President Muhammadu
Buhari wins the upcoming presidential election, they will resume attacks
on oil facilities and bombing of pipelines in the creeks.
“The
Reformed Niger Delta Avengers with the coalition of nine militant
groups are ever ready to lead the security agencies to smoke them out
from their hiding places in the creeks, and we are going to bring down
any community or kingdom that any attack on oil facilities and bombing
of pipelines takes place in any part of the Niger Delta, and will expose
alongside their sponsors and co-travellers in their ill-fated journey.
It is sad and very obvious that the aims and objectives of the moribund
NDA group has derailed from the genuine agitation of the people of the
region and it is now purely for selfish interest. They are just using
the name of the Niger Delta struggle to enrich family members and their
kingdom affairs alone upon the detriment of the long-neglected
emancipated people of the region in the creeks.
“RNDA wants to
warn that enough is enough. The people of the region in the creeks can
no longer be fooled under the guise of Niger Delta development, as the
agitation in the creeks goes beyond Ijaw tribal agenda alone. It goes
beyond Gbaramatu kingdom affairs and is neither a one-man show nor a
family business venture affairs alone.
“The RNDA, however, wants
to inform the long neglected people of the region, most especially those
that are suffering in the creeks of the Niger Delta, that we cannot be
fooled into another wasted years of misrule of our God-given natural
resources again to be looted away in the hands of a corrupt political
party like the PDP and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar,
programmed calculated political antics called ‘restructuring’, which is
the latest political slogan of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar full
of deceit and full of lies.
“We have to make it clear that the PDP and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, are the enemies to the long neglected emancipated people of the Niger Delta region.
Source:- Saharareporters
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