FLASHBACK: The Meetings In The Niger Delta Under GEJ When The Avengers Was Formed

Jan 2015 article image: EX-NIGER-DELTA-LEADERS-MEETING-

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Dasuki and Jonathan
Dasuki and Jonathan

As Cynthia Whyte reveals the conditions under which an attack force was created and “named” Avengers by former president Goodluck Jonathan, to avenge a defeat at the polls, a meeting of many of the listed suspects including the governor of Bayelsa state, that took place in January of 2015 immediately comes to remembrance. Global intelligence including STRATFOR and Wikileaks leaks have always clearly identified Goodluck Jonathan as a patron of MEND whose members were involved in the meetings that birthed the Avengers.

Cynthia Whyte explained that this attack force was meant to cause chaos in the event of a Goodluck Jonathan defeat, but was told to stand down for the time being and was changed into a terror force to frustrate the Buhari regime. It is recalled that PDP politicians like Nuhu Ribadu and Jimi Agbaje knew of this terror plot and blackmailed Nigeria of clear bloody consequences and an “economic shutdown” should Jonathan loose. Here is the article from January 2015 of one such meeting of militants and PDP government officials in Bayelsa last year January:

Niger Delta militants meet in Yenagoa, threaten war should Jonathan lose presidential election

January 24, 2015 in PremiumTimes

Prominent Niger Delta militants have vowed to ensure that President Goodluck Jonathan wins the February 14 presidential election.

Mr. Jonathan is of the Ijaw ethnic stock, and the only member of a minority tribe from the South to have ever governed Nigeria.

Jan 2015 article image: EX-NIGER-DELTA-LEADERS-MEETING-

The former militants, who said any attempt to dethrone the President would be seen as a direct attack on the Ijaw nation, threatened to unleash violence on the country and take back Niger Delta oil should Mr. Jonathan lose re-election.

According to them the President’s victory in the election is not negotiable.

The former militant leaders took the position Friday in Government House, Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, at an enlarged meeting that was attended by all the former militant leaders and their followers across the Niger Delta region.

Among those in attendance were Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, leader, Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force; Victor Ben Ebikabowei, aka, Boy Loaf; and Government Ekpudomenowei, aka, Tompolo.

Also in attendance were the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, and chairman of Amnesty Implementation Committee, Kingsley Kuku; Bayelsa state Governor, Seriake Dickson and his deputy; President General of Ijaw Youth Council, Udengs Eradiri; among others.

Addressing the meeting, Dokubo-Asari deplored the alleged intimidation being meted to the people of Ijaw stock in Nigeria, saying the people cannot take it any longer.

“For every Goliath, God created a David. For every Pharoah, there is a Moses. “We are going to war. Everyone of you should go and fortify yourself,’’ he said.

He advised those at the meeting to be ready for the battle ahead and declared that Mr. Jonathan would win reelection.

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Mr. Dokubo-Asari, who condemned the attack on Jonathan in the north in the ongoing presidential campaigns, maintained that the survival of the Ijaw nation rests in the hands of the militants gathered at the meeting.

On his part, Boyloaf condemned the attack on President Jonathan in the north, saying nobody has the monopoly of violence.

He said there is nothing like one Nigeria, pointing out that oil is the only thing binding Nigeria’s diverse nationalities together.

While maintaining that President Jonathan would win the election, he however said if the north takes the power away from Mr. Jonathan, the people of the Niger Delta region would take their oil back.

He stressed the need for oneness of purpose among the people, urging them to keep their grudges aside and face the present challenges facing the Ijaw nation with solidarity.

”Keep grudges and sentiments apart. We are ready to match them bumper to bumper,” Boyloaf said.

In his remark, Governor Dickson thanked the former militant leaders for their resolve to back the re-election of President Jonathan with greater vigour and assured them that he would relate their position to the President.

He urged them to resist the temptation of being recruited by the opposition to destabilize the state.

The governor also charged them to shun propaganda and blackmail.