In a dramatic twist, the Ijaw Youth Council, turning away from its earlier stance where it commended President Goodluck Jonathan for accepting defeat at the poll and promised not to resort to attacking pipeline and oil infrastructure, has vowed a hostile response.
The President of the group, Udengs Eradiri, had earlier said that the group would not resort to attacking pipeline and oil infrastructure following Mr. Jonathan’s loss at the polls and pledged loyalty to the incoming administration.
But in a dramatic twist, the spokesperson for the group, Eric Omare, said the group was not satisfied with the turn out of the polls and will seek a new direction for the struggle for resource control.
“The IYC has resolved to call for a National Congress of all Ijaw Youths on Sunday, the 5th of April, 2015 at Tuomo Community in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State where all the Ijaw Youths of the Niger-Delta region would meet to review the outcome of the Presidential elections.
“IYC will take a position and determine the next direction of our struggle for self-determination and resource control as enshrined in the historic Kaiama Declaration.
“We call on all Ijaw Youths to be alert and ready to heed the call to the service of the Ijaw nation at this crucial time of our history and struggle for survival in the Nigerian state in the face of the grand conspiracy between the north and a section of the south west to continue to suppress and exploit the resource of the Ijaw nation.
“We recall that when President Jonathan, an Ijaw and from the South South won an internationally acclaimed free, fair and credible election in 2011, General Buhari and his people never at any time congratulated or supported President Jonathan.
“Instead they killed hundreds of innocent Nigerians and fought President Jonathan from the day he became the Acting President of Nigeria in 2010 until the north conspired with a section of the south west to take over the Presidency from President Jonathan and the minorities of the south-south in an election fraught with irregularities.
“It is also significant to note that none of the northern socio-cultural groups such as the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and others congratulated or supported the administration of President Jonathan.
“Northerners created Boko Haram and blamed it on President Jonathan deliberately to incite the northern populace against President Jonathan and make him unpopular in the 2015 election so as to take back power in a grand conspiracy with a section of the south west.
“Therefore, the April 5, 2015 meeting of all Ijaw youths would determine the position of the Ijaw Youths on the 2015 Presidential election and our next line of action,” Mr. Omare said.


Source: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/180526-ijaw-youth-council-makes-u-turn-vows-response-to-jonathans-election-loss.html

My advice to the Ijaw youths;


PLEASE DO NOT PLAY WITH FIRE

What is trying to happen to Oyel money.......I just dey observe.......is oyel money about to dry up....will cocoa farming return......only time will tell

Nonsense!!!

They can go to hell if they want.

They should remember however that the incoming Govt will ensure that terrorists are obliterated with maximum force.

To hell with them and what they represent.

Change has come! They either accept the change or STFU!!


Sai Buhari for sure!

Nigeria

They should drink their oyel

abduljabbar8:
They should drink their oyel

they've started drinking it already
pls tell your people to return to cocoa and groundnut farming kos Nigeria's oil has dried up!

If dem like make dem burst d pipeline, na everybody go suffer includin all d pple wen de shout go to hell (infact na dem go suffer pass).

Jojo no send any body dat busy body work of burstin pipeline.

Me I go pack go stay cameroon de speak comment tu ta pelle.

ozoigbondu:
What is trying to happen to Oyel money.......I just dey observe.......is oyel money about to dry up....will cocoa farming return......only time will tell

hehehehe....u be fool. Only fools talk like ds

They will be slaughtered. Mumu people.

Elsewhere...... I have campaigned for Buhari to a point where my phones and laptop now has Buhari as a default word, each time I type B....guess what comes up.......'BUHARI'. .. I am seriously vexing now sef.

You blow up pipelines and what not..., tell me, who's gonna suffer the consequences of the environmental devastation that would result from that, Northerners

People mumu no be small oo.

CharlesPhc:
The only response we can give to the loss is a protest vote against the APC in the SS and SE during the guber elections. Just like the SW had a regional party (ACN) when the PDP was at the center so the SS and SE should make the PDP their regional party and vote out the APC in all the gubernetorial elections across the SS and SE states in protest. This is my candid submission...!!!

do you think it's easy being an opposition? Because the yorubas did it, you now also want to toe that line. Kindly ask what they suffered. You guys are best known as AGIP, and AGIP you'll remain. Watch how Obiano will sell out just as peter obi did soon.

Senseless youths!! Why didn't their dull brother Jonathan expose the "alleged sponsors " of Bokoharam?? Now they intend creating chaos in Buhari's government? Empty brains!!

omenka:
You blow up pipelines and what not..., tell me, who's gonna suffer the consequences of the environmental devastation that would result from that, Northerners

People mumu no be small oo.

If they bow up oil pipelines!
Nigeria will broke then Nigeria will brake!

CharlesPhc:



No pain, no gain...!!! We are ready for the struggle and any sell out is welcomed but will be regreted sooner than later...!!!

easier said than done. You think the opinion of the people count? As soon as buhari is sworn in, peter obi, martin elechi, obiano, bianca and the rest ethnic salesmen will fall on themselves to get contracts from him, thereby persuading their huge supporters to support him. Or aren't these same set of people the reason why you hate buhari? They'll make you like him for their own selfish interest.

noblezone:


If they bow up oil pipelines!
Nigeria will broke then Nigeria will brake!

interpol will fish out asari and tompolo wherever they are hiding before they even think of such. Abi una think sey na jona dey power?

Segeggs:
interpol will fish out asari and tompolo wherever they are hiding before they even think of such. Abi una think sey na jona dey power?

While I am not in support of any violence, you must realis that you can kill a man but an ideology!
Even if Boko Haram stop today, it is a matter time, another of their kind will rise up!

The struggle for the independence of the Niger Delta and Biafra are ideologies that will never die!

If does not happen in our generation, it will happen in the next!

Nigeria was created by slave traders!
We are not slaves.

cheruv:

they've started drinking it already
pls tell your people to return to cocoa and groundnut farming kos Nigeria's oil has dried up!

I repeat: they shouldd drink their oil. That's the only thing I understand