Oshiomhole, Sylva using MEND, other criminals for political gains – Avengers

The Niger Delta Avengers has accused the Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, and a former Governor of Bayelsa State, Timbre Sylva, of using the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta and others to promote their political ambitions.
The NDA, in a statement on Wednesday, said Oshiomhole and Sylva are using some criminal elements such as MEND, which it described as “political sidekicks”, to fester their political ambition and that of their party.
Both Oshiomhole and Sylva belong to the All Progressives Congress.
In the statement signed by its spokesman, Brigadier General Mudoch Agbinibo, the Avengers said they are not moved by such development, adding that it will soon fizzle away.
The statement reads in full: We appeal to the general public and all sane minds on the activities of Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) to disregards all purported statements and misplaced threat emanating from disbanded criminal elements like the so-called MEND (Movement For the Emancipation of The Niger Delta) that are political sidekicks and desperations from Gov. Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state, Mr. Timipre Silva and their political paymasters to hold their political party to the jugular of the affairs of the Niger Delta Region. That our struggle is focused on the liberation of the People of Niger Delta from decades of divisive rule and exclusion. We are watching keenly their regretful efforts at rebranding and regrouping criminal elements in the region for their short political gains and territories. The NDA is unperturbed, we have mandate that is clearly a departure of those old tactics of the defunct so-called MEND that was indulged in kidnapping, hostage taking, Sea piracy, illegal oil bunkering, bank robberies and social crimes, the likes of Boyloafs, Ateke Toms, were associated to in their days in the name struggle. The wind of change in the Niger Delta struggle has come, we are are young, smart, and focused Niger deltans. Our mandate is to liberate the Niger Delta people; we don’t run after pipeline contracts.
God bless the Niger Delta People.