Niger Delta Militants.,Dokubo, Boyloaf, Tompolo, Kuku, Dickson Other Niger Delta Militants Meet, Threaten War If Goodluck Jonathan Loses
Niger Delta militants meet in Yenagoa, threaten war should Jonathan lose presidential election
Niger Delta Militants
Prominent Niger Delta
militants have vowed to ensure that President Goodluck Jonathan wins the
February 14 presidential election.
The former militants,
who said any attempt to dethrone the President would be seen as a direct attack
on the Ijaw nation, threatened to unleash violence on the country and take back
Niger Delta oil should Mr. Jonathan lose re-election.
According to them the
President’s victory in the election is not negotiable.
The former militant
leaders took the position Friday in Government House, Yenagoa, the Bayelsa
State capital, at an enlarged meeting that was attended by all the former
militant leaders and their followers across the Niger Delta region.
Among those in attendance were
Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, leader, Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force; Victor Ben
Ebikabowei, aka, Boy Loaf; and Government Ekpudomenowei, aka, Tompolo.
Government Tompolo, paid millions of dolalrs by Jonathan
government to ‘defend water-ways’
Also in attendance were the Special
Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, and chairman of Amnesty
Implementation Committee, Kingsley Kuku; Bayelsa state Governor, Seriake
Dickson and his deputy; President General of Ijaw Youth Council, Udengs
Eradiri; among others.
Addressing the
meeting, Dokubo-Asari deplored the alleged intimidation being meted to the
people of Ijaw stock in Nigeria, saying the people cannot take it any longer.
“For every Goliath,
God created a David. For every Pharoah, there is a Moses. “We are going to war.
Everyone of you should go and fortify yourself,’’ he said.
He advised those at
the meeting to be ready for the battle ahead and declared that Mr. Jonathan
would win reelection.
Mr. Dokubo-Asari, who
condemned the attack on Jonathan in the north in the ongoing presidential
campaigns, maintained that the survival of the Ijaw nation rests in the hands
of the militants gathered at the meeting.
On his part, Boyloaf
condemned the attack on President Jonathan in the north, saying nobody has the
monopoly of violence.
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He said there is nothing like one Nigeria, pointing out that oil
is the only thing binding Nigeria’s diverse nationalities together.
While maintaining
that President Jonathan would win the election, he however said if the north
takes the power away from Mr. Jonathan, the people of the Niger Delta region
would take their oil back.
He stressed the need
for oneness of purpose among the people, urging them to keep their grudges
aside and face the present challenges facing the Ijaw nation with solidarity.
“Keep grudges and
sentiments apart. We are ready to match them bumper to bumper,” Boyloaf said.
In his remark,
Governor Dickson thanked the former militant leaders for their resolve to back
the re-election of President Jonathan with greater vigour and assured them that
he would relate their position to the President.
He urged them to
resist the temptation of being recruited by the opposition to destabilize the
state.
The governor also
charged them to shun propaganda and blackmail.
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