Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari cancelled a planned visit to the Niger Delta Thursday.
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Niger Delta Avengers, a militant group that has been responsible for the blow up of oil wells in the Niger Delta region on Saturday urged other groups not to attack soldiers or kidnap people.
But boasting that the NDA was not frightened, Mudoch Agbinibo, spokesman of the militants, said “the military warplanes hovering round our towns and villages have not struck a soul or destroyed any property, so those groups with anti-aircraft missiles should dry their gunpowder”.
” A government that claimed to have defeated the hydra-headed monster called the Boko Haram in the northern part of the country should not find it hard to crush the Niger Delta Avengers to prevent anarchy and break down of law and order in that part of the country”.
The communiqué, signed by the APC National Vice-Chairman South South, Hilliard Eta, and the Zonal Secretary, Steven Ezekwem, also rejected the inclusion of the Niger Delta region in the “imaginary State of Biafra”.
Nigerian military should as a matter of urgency leave peacefully the Ijaw communities they are presently in, the next 48 hours under the guise of searching for the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) or else we should not be blamed of whatever catastrophe that may befall such officers and the likely affected families of the officers should be blamed not the region. Despite the heavy presence of military we still find a way to carry out our actions without attacking soldiers.
It also continues: “The high command is calling on all groups in Rivers, Ondo, Delta, Bayelsa, Cross River, and Akwa Ibom to not indulge in any act of kidnapping and attacking of soldiers“.
The party commended President Buhari and the federal government for the courage to commence the clean-up of Ogoniland.
The attacks are the latest in a Delta region conflict that a major local youth group said is “rapidly deteriorating and getting out of control”, putting intense pressure on Nigeria’s stretched finances.
Speaking further, he frowned at media reports credited Governor Fayose of Ekiti State on the issue, noting that his actions were unbecoming of a supposed state executive.
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Buhari should “urgently and personally take charge of the management of the process to return peace and normalcy to the region”. “That is why we are not bothered about the blackmail that going on that we are holding people illegally or refusing to allow suspects access to medicals”. They looted our commonwealth blind only for the beneficiaries of the six years misrule to turn around to sponsor hostilities against the Federal Government.
