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The group made its position known in statement by its spokesman, Jomo Gbomo, adding that the assets of Air Peace and Onyema have become “legitimate targets for attack”.
A former Chairman of the Plateau State Chapter of the Nigerian Bar Association and the Principal Counsel, Solicitor and Advocates of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Tob Kekemeke, made this call on Friday when he spoke with The Eagle Online in his office in Jos, the Plateau State capital
The stakeholders’ meeting was convened by elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark. Gbomo said the communiqué failed to categorically condemn the “criminal and treasonable activities of the Niger Delta Avengers
The statement reads: “My attention has been drawn to widespread reports in the media claiming that I have agreed to participate in negotiations with the Federal Government over the issue of attacks against oil installations in the Niger Delta on behalf of some of the alleged perpetrators of these actions or connected persons. This is not so
The group, in the statement on Monday, which named a seven-member team to dialogue with the Federal Government on the Niger Delta crisis, said: “Our message to the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) is simple: The Niger Delta struggle is beyond attacks on oil installations
Members of defunct Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta on Sunday in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State urged President Muhammadu…
The former militant leaders, Reuben Wilson, popularly known as General Pastor, and Paul Eris, alias Ogunboss, are pleading with security operatives in the country to ensure their security before, during and after next month’s elections, just as they have said that they would not be intimidated into supporting Buhari
In a statement on Thursday, MEND said those opposed to its support for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Muhammadu Buhari, have decided to sell their future for a morsel of porridge they are getting for Jonathan, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party
Fani-Kayode made the call on Friday in Abuja against the backdrop of the purported endorsement by MEND of General Buhari’s presidential candidacy on the APC platform
A former leader of the group, General Reuben Wilson, has therefore called on Nigerians to disregard the said endorsement
In a statement in Abuja on Thursday, the Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, described the reported endorsement as a poisoned chalice
The explanation, according to Metuh, becomes necessary following the unsavoury public reactions trailing the statement by MEND backing the party’s presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari
In a three-page statement signed by its spokesperson, Jomo Gbomo, MEND said it endorsed and fully support Buhari after careful consideration of the state of the nation
The group however said that the ceasefire would be only on certain conditions, which it expects the Presidency to meet within the next few days
The repentant militant leaders said in a statement on Wednesday that MEND used to be the pseudonym that they used while in the creeks for propaganda and that MEND ceased to exist from the day they accepted the amnesty offer of the Federal Government
The message by Uranta said: “One’s attention has been repeatedly drawn to the outlandish mendacities put out, today, under the pseudonym ‘MEND’, and with regard to my person
MEND, in a statement by Gbomo Jomo, said the militant group has reviewed its Hurricane Exodus and it is satisfied with the reduced oil output caused by pipeline vandalism
He said: “I Am a Muslim.
“I do not subscribe to attacking religious centres of worship.
“I do not believe that MEND exist
It also said that the cessation of hostilities against Christians and their places of worship by dreaded sect, Boko Haram, will stave the retaliation