A statement signed by Jomo Gbomo said the
group’s decision to support General
Mohammadu Buhari arises from the pathetic
state in which the country has been put by the
government of Mr. Jonathan and its strong
belief in General Buhari as the man and change
the country needs.
“It is very clear that the Niger Delta region now
regrets voting a corrupt and incompetent leader
who they believed would [bring] transformation
to the region, in spite of our earlier warnings
about Goodluck Jonathan,” MEND said. “He
(Goodluck Jonathan) has only succeeded in
infecting the region with poverty, corruption and
mal-administration. This is our chance not to
repeat this costly blunder of 2011.”
It challenged every Niger Deltan to ask
themselves if the region is any better under
Goodluck Jonathan than it was under a sick Late
President Musa Yar'Adua. We are convinced
that the people of the Niger Delta have woken
up to realise that voting Goodluck Jonathan
simply because of tribe, was the biggest
mistake they made.”
MEND said President Jonathan does not
deserve a second more in the presidency as
soon as his tenure expires as he has
continuously and blatantly disregarded the very
people who voted him into office.
“A President that told Nigerian to their faces
that he does not “give a damn” when asked to
declare his assets. A requirement that is
constitutional on assuming the office of the
President.”
It recalled that Mr. Jonathan, since assuming his
office, has setup countless number of
“Committees”, none of which their reports has
ever been implemented. From the Nuhu Ribadu
report to the KPMG and Fuel Subsidy reports,
just to mention a few.
“How can Nigerians expect a highly corrupt
person like Goodluck Jonathan to fight
corruption when he believes that “stealing is not
corruption”, as he shamelessly told the Nation?”
the group asked. “He has proven beyond all
reasonable doubt, his inability to tackle
corruption or prosecute a single government
official in his six (6) years in office.”
MEND described as “laughable” the recent
statement by Goodluck Jonathan on his
government’s plan to fight corruption, adding
that it not only smacked of ignorance to the
highest order, but also shows just how stupid he
thinks Nigerians are.
It pointed out that Jonathan has had six years to
tackle corruption but who chose to shield
corrupt government officials and joined in the
looting of Nigeria’s resources now has the
temerity to say his government “has a plan” to
fight corruption, describing it as a big slap in the
face of every single Nigerian.
“We re-state our disregard and lack of
confidence in President Goodluck Jonathan.
Rather than address the perennial issues in the
country responsible for his administration’s
failures, he is concentrating government funds
in a campaign of misinformation intended to
hoodwink Nigerians who, unfortunately for him,
are now wiser and smarter than he is.”
Towards the forthcoming election, MEND urged
Nigerians to ignore the empty threats and
provocative comments from political thugs
parading themselves as “ex-militants” and
“Freedom Fighters”.
“These spineless cowards want Nigerians to
believe that there will be no peace if Goodluck
Jonathan is not re-elected into office despite the
billions of dollars spent on the “Amnesty
Programme” to reform these miscreants,” it
said.
“Nigeria needs change, the Niger Delta needs
change and General Mohammadu Buhari is the
change the Country desperately needs,” it
declared. “For our Freedom and Yours.”

Full text of the statement:

Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger
Delta

The Movement for the Emancipation of the
Niger Delta (MEND) has, upon careful
consideration of the state of the Nation,
endorses and fully support the Presidential
candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC),
General Mohammadu Buhari.
Our decision to throw our full support on
General Mohammadu Buhari stems from the
pathetic state in which the country has been put
by the government of Goodluck Jonathan and
our strong believe in General Mohammadu
Buhari as the man and change the country
needs.
President Goodluck Jonathan does not deserve
a second more in the Presidency as soon as his
tenure expires as he has continuously and
blatantly disregarded the very people who
voted him into office.
A President that told Nigerian to their faces that
he does not “give a damn” when asked to
declare his assets. A requirement that is
constitutional on assuming the office of the
President.
President Jonathan, since assuming his office,
has setup countless number of “Committees”,
none of which their reports has ever been
implemented. From the Nuhu Ribadu report to
the KPMG and Fuel Subsidy reports, just to
mention a few.
How can Nigerians expect a highly corrupt
person like Goodluck Jonathan to fight
corruption when he believes that “stealing is not
corruption”, as he shamelessly told the Nation?
He has proven beyond all reasonable doubt, his
inability to tackle corruption or prosecute a
single government official in his six (6) years in
office.

MEND finds it laughable the recent statement
by Goodluck Jonathan on his governments plan
to fight corruption. This statement not only
smacks of ignorance to the highest order, but
also shows just how stupid he thinks Nigerians
are. A president that had six years to tackle the
problem but chose to shield corrupt
government officials, joined in the looting of our
resources and now has the temerity to say his
government “has a plan” to fight corruption.
This is a big slap in the face of every single
Nigerian!
We re-state our disregard and lack of
confidence in President Goodluck Jonathan.
Rather than address the perennial issues in the
country responsible for his administrations
failures, he is concentrating government funds
in a campaign of misinformation intended to
hoodwink Nigerians who, unfortunately for him,
are now wiser and smarter than he is.
Goodluck Jonathan’s actions, utterances and
arrogance prove that he is totally disconnected
with the situation facing the ordinary Nigerian
and completely out of touch with reality.

OFFICE OF THE FIRST LADY
MEND commends General Mohammad Buhari
for his plans, when elected as President, to
scrap the so-called “Office of the First Lady”.
This is obviously an irrelevant, fraudulent and
unconstitutional office, whose only purpose is to
further plunder the resources of the country.
Nigerians and the EFCC appear to have
forgotten that this “First Lady” Mrs Patience
Jonathan was in the process of being charged
with attempts to launder stolen money to the
United Kingdom, barely a few months after
President Jonathan was sworn in as President.
The same offence former Governor James Ibori
was charged with.
In the wake of the still-missing Chibok school
girls abduction, the “First Lady”, rather than
being embarrassed by her husbands inability on
how to handle the situation, was instead
worried about his tarnished legacy and even
considered the Bring Back our Girls
Campaigners a nuisance and upsetting to their
daily exercise of redirecting Nigeria’s resources
to the their private coffers.
President Jonathan and the PDP have
continuously exploited every national tragedy
for political gains. They have politicised the
Boko Haram insurgency for political gains. They
used regional and religious sentiments as a
cheap strategy but Nigerians know better.

THE NIGER DELTA REGION
Since President Goodluck Jonathan assumed
office, the Niger Delta region has experienced
excruciating poverty faced by the people, worse
pollution and environmental degradation and
not once has he ever come out to openly
condemn the destruction of our environment by
the activities of irresponsible oil companies.
Recent reports confirm the country is losing
billions of Dollars in oil revenue due to oil theft.
This theft has been aided by the pot-bellied
Nigerian Army generals, in connivance with
corrupt Nigerian government officials, the Joint
Task Force and the Nigerian Navy. It is no
wonder the once respected Nigerian Military
has been reduced to a ragtag Army by the Boko
Haram Terrorists. It can only take a bold and
courageous man like General Mohammadu
Buhari to tackle the insecurity and oil theft
plaguing the nation. He has done it before and
he will and can do it again!
The Niger Delta region has the Ministry of the
Niger Delta, the Niger Delta Development
Commission (NDDC), the Presidential Amnesty
Programme (PAP) and the largest percentage in
oil revenue allocation, yet the region has
nothing to show for all these due to a very
corrupt government and system in place. We
are confident that a General Mohammadu
Buhari presidency would probe these agencies
and divert all stolen revenue back to the
development of the region and Nigeria as a
whole.

Regrettably, our so-called “Freedom Fighters”,
“Niger Delta Activists”, “elders”, Royal Fathers
and politicised groups such as the Ijaw Youth
Congress (IYC), United Niger Delta Energy
Development Security Strategy (UNDESS) and
several other castrated and myopic groups from
the region have lost focus. Rather than speaking
out against corruption, impunity,
underdevelopment, degradation of our
environment, unemployment and the
impoverished living of the ordinary Niger
Deltan, prefer to turn themselves into political
praise singers of the government to enrich
themselves while the region is still licking the
wounds of marginalization. We say you are all
cowards and shame unto you all! You now feast
on the sweat and blood of great Niger Delta
leaders like Isaac Adaka Boro and Ken Saro-
Wiwa while the region remains impoverished,
underdeveloped and polluted.

It is very clear that the Niger Delta region now
regrets voting a corrupt and incompetent leader
who they believed would transformation to the
region, in spite of our earlier warnings about
Goodluck Jonathan. He (Goodluck Jonathan)
has only succeeded in infecting the region with
poverty, corruption and mal-administration.
This is our chance not to repeat this costly
blunder of 2011.

We challenge every Niger Deltan to ask yourself
if the region is any better under Goodluck
Jonathan than it was under a sick Late
President Musa Yar'Adua. We are convinced
that the people of the Niger Delta have woken
up to realise that voting Goodluck Jonathan
simply because of tribe, was the biggest
mistake they made.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the
Niger Delta (MEND) urges Nigerians to ignore
the empty threats and provocative comments
from political thugs parading themselves as “ex-
militants” and “Freedom Fighters”. These
spineless cowards want Nigerians to believe
that there will be no peace if Goodluck
Jonathan is not re-elected into office despite the
billions of dollars spent on the “Amnesty
Programme” to reform these miscreants.
Nigeria needs change, the Niger Delta needs
change and General Mohammadu Buhari is the
change the Country desperately needs.
For our Freedom and Yours.

Jomo Gbomo


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True?

PhockPhockMan:
True?

Yup!

Abeg who be mend .ok its some dudes infront of their laptops

MEND is not a representative of the Niger Delta people.

They need to shut their trap.

Even if federal govt endorses buhari, GEJ 2019.

Hmm

If you guys like endorse the Nigerian man in Gabon... Feb 14 go judge.

Gej/Gmb till Feb 14 2015.

Yes.we the sensible Niger Deltans reject Jonathan. Jonathan is a big disgrace to Niger Delta, we were.happy wr had our own there, our joy have veen ahort lived. Militants and terrorists are the only beneficiary of this extremely corrupt government.

Hw true is dis?

Joke of the century

I can see that the APC Propaganda Newspapers are getting more and more desperate . I've always known Sahara Reporters to be extreme in their propaganda but I never knew Punch could go this low too

Common APC, you guys can do better than this.

PhockPhockMan:
True?

shocked? Apc is taking the war to gej's backyard.

Truckpusher:
MEND is not a representative of the Niger Delta people.

They need to shut their trap.

would u say this if it was coming from Asari? Apc go shock u!

amaechi don settle some hungry boys