More than 1,000 former Niger Delta militants at Igbokoda, in Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State, joined the Action Congress of Nigeria(ACN) through the Omoluabi platform of the ACN . The militants, led by Mr Willie Ayerin, declared at the ceremony that though they have dropped their guns, rockets, bows and arrows to embrace peace in the area through the amnesty programe of the Federal Government, but they are determined to fight for their ancestral heritage by ensuring that the outgoing Labour Party (LP) government in Ondo State is swept out of existence.
The former militants who are now members of a democratic reform group, said the resources of their people have been plaundered by the Mimiko administration, they alleged, who has not done anything in the riverine areas in the last three years.
The group said it is painful to note the goose that lays the golden egg suffer in the midst of plenty. It observed that nothing concrete had been done since Dr Olusegun Agagu left office in 2009.
According to Ayerin, not a kilometer of road has been added to what Agagu did in the riverine communities since he left while all developmental programes embarked upon by the former regime had either been suspended, stopped or cancelled outrightly. Some of these projects, he said, include the now epileptic University of Science and Technology, Okitipupa.
The group enjoined all indegenes of the riverine commnities to support the Dr Olu Agunloye project to rescue the state from the claws of kleptomanias who have made looting of the peoples treasury their past time.
Also at the rally, the former chairman of Ondo State Oil Producing Development Commission (osopadec) Chief Adewale Omojuwa, left the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) with thousands of his supporters accross the state to join the ACN.
Omojuwa said it was time to rescue his people from the claws of senseless leaders whose main purpose in government was to loot the treasury.
He recalled his days in osopadec when most major projects in the riverine communities were flagged off with some completed within the stipulated period. He lamented nothing concrete had been done since he left office.
He promised his followers that the incoming ACN government in the state will put smiles to their faces again and vowed that never will a cosmetic government of deceit like the outgoing LP goverrnment be allowed to manage resources accruable to the state again.


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