The appearance of President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria in a captivating military gear is said to have forced the new militant group, the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, to surrender.

In what has been described as a tactical military manoeuvring and a stern warning to the nemeses of the nation such as the Avengers, the Nigerian leader stepped out in full military attire for an official assignment within a region of his country.

The NDA, representing the fresh face of militancy in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria, has launched a series of devastating attacks on various oil installations serving as the major revenue earners for Nigeria.

The relentless bombardment of the oil infrastructures has significantly reduced the country’s production capacity of 2.2 million barrels per day, upon which the government’s budget for 2016 is based, to about 900,000 barrels per day.

Even in the face of the apparent provocation and incapacitation caused to the government by the Avengers which has led to failures in payment of salaries and provision of basic amenities to the citizens, the Buhari government has made efforts to invite the militants, albeit unsuccessfully, to a negotiating table.

However, like the much talked-about powerful and somewhat magical body language of President Buhari that supplied electricity into every home and provided surplus fuel in all filling stations during the early days of his administration, the emergence of the president in military uniform, according to a reliable source, has surprisingly caused many of the militants to be begging to lay down their weapons while some have reportedly scampered for cover in the inner most parts of the Niger Delta creeks.

“Honestly, the ferocious Avengers are now desperately calling to surrender after seeing the president in that unusual military outfit. Some of the militants confided in me that that strange appearance gave an eerie reminder of Buhari’s regime as a military head of state in Nigeria over 30 years ago when all forms of decrees were in place to punish the slightest misconduct. So it was thought that with the manner some economic crime suspects are presently being locked in jail without due recourse to judicial prescriptions, the President may be coming after the militants with full force soon”, said the source.

Meanwhile, the Nigerian government has continued its engagements with thought leaders from the Niger Delta region, who have been visiting the president in the Villa in a bid to achieving “technical victory” over any enemy of the state, as seen in the government’s “technical defeat” of the Boko Haram, and in ensuring peace across the land.
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