MEND replies PDP, says Buhari best candidate
JANUARY 9, 2015 BY CHUKWUDI AKASIKE
Niger Delta militants | credits: File copy
REACTING to the criticism of its endorsement of the All
Progressives Congress candidate, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu
Buhari (retd.), for the presidency in the 2015 elections, the
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta has
insisted that Buhari is the best candidate in the race.
MEND, the umbrella body for militancy in the oil-rich
Niger-Delta, said it would support the APC candidate.
Candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, President
Goodluck Jonathan, an Ijaw man from Bayelsa State, is also
from the Niger Delta.
MEND had on Wednesday declared that it would support
Buhari for the presidency, alleging that Jonathan had not
performed up to the expectations of Nigerians, a position
that did not go down well with the PDP and the Ijaw Youth
Council.
Why the PDP, through its National Publicity Secretary,
Olisa Metuh, queried APC’s link with MEND, the IYC
through its Publicity Secretary, Eric Omare, reportedly
described MEND as a “ghost”.
Jonathan, at the commencement of his campaign in Lagos
on Thursday, also said he did not expect the group’s
support because “some people procured MEND in 2010 to
assassinate me” and that the leader of the group, Henry
Okah, is in jail in South Africa.
But MEND, in an electronic statement by its famous
spokesperson, Jomo Gbomo, on Thursday, described
Metuh’s position on its support for Buhari as “callous and
irresponsible.”
The reaction of the PDP, the Niger Delta militant group
explained, further confirmed its views about President
Jonathan’s alleged inept government.
The statement read, “The Movement for the Emancipation
of the Niger Delta views the recent question and statement
credited to the Peoples Democratic Party National Publicity
Secretary, Olisa Metuh, as very callous and irresponsible.
“This question: “Explain your connections with MEND”,
further confirms and vindicates our views about Goodluck
Jonathan, his inept government and the PDP.”
“MEND strongly denies any link with the All Progressives
Congress and has never been approached for anything, at
any point in time, by the party, as pettily alleged by Olisa
Metuh.
“The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta
stands strongly by our endorsement and full support of
General Muhammadu Buhari as the man to lead the country
out of its present calamitous state in the hands of Goodluck
Jonathan.
“MEND finds it laughable the recent statement by Mr. Eric
Omare, the Publicity Secretary of a mere tribal assembly
and political praise singers, known as the Ijaw Youth
Council, stating that ‘MEND is a ghost’. We clearly
understand their frustrations at our stance as it obviously
came as a shock to them.
“Nigerians should ask this man (Eric Omare) if he was
referring to ‘ghosts’ when he lauded MEND for declaring a
temporary ceasefire six months ago.”
It added, “The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger
Delta, once more, urges Nigerians to ignore the empty
threats of this so-called ‘ex-agitators’ and the Ijaw Youth
Council. Their reckless utterances only ridicule and confirm
the colossal failure of the Amnesty Programme.
“We advise the Ijaw Youth Council to use their idle time in
telling and showing Nigerians and Niger Deltans what the
government of Goodluck Jonathan has done or achieved in
Nigeria and the region in the last six years in office, apart
from giving them handouts called monthly stipends.
“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens,
you can never regain their respect and esteem.”
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MEND is an headless body ... GEJ till 2019!!!

what ever u call dem' but it seems Jonathan is politically grounded........

even his own brodaz has deserted him.

R.i.p jona

If d whole world like de shud endorse buhari.

Piple dont think of d question "WHAT IF" it happens d oda way round?

Anyway Let d will of God b done.