(NIGERIA) Niger Delta militia, the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), on Tuesday endorsed General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.) of the All Progresives Congress (APC), for the upcoming presidential election.
MEND insisted that Buhari is the right man for the job to revamp the failing state of the country.
The group in a statement issued via e-mail which was signed by its spokesman, Gbomo Jomo, said the decision to support Buhari stemmed from the pathetic state of the country “occasioned by the government of President Goodluck Jonathan.”
According to MEND, “President Jonathan, since assuming office, has setup countless number of committees, none of which their reports have ever been implemented. From the Nuhu Ribadu report to the KPMG and Fuel Subsidy reports, just to mention a few.
“How can Nigerians expect a person like Jonathan to fight corruption when he believes that stealing is not corruption, as he told the nation? He has proven beyond all reasonable doubt his inability to tackle corruption or prosecute a single government official in his six years in office.”
“MEND finds it laughable the recent statement by Jonathan on his government’s plan to fight corruption. This statement not only smacks of ignorance of the highest order, but also shows how stupid he thinks Nigerians are. A president that had six years to tackle the problem but chose to shield corrupt government officials and now has the temerity to say his government ‘has a plan’ to fight corruption. This is a big slap in the face of every single Nigerian!
“We restate our disregard and lack of confidence in President Jonathan. Rather than address the perennial issues in the country responsible for his administrations failures, he is concentrating government funds in a campaign of misinformation intended to hoodwink Nigerians who, unfortunately for him, are now wiser and smarter than he is. Jonathan’s actions, utterances and arrogance prove that he is totally disconnected from the situation facing the ordinary Nigerians and completely out of touch with reality.”
The statement further said: “We have strong belief in Buhari as the man and change the country’s needs. President Jonathan does not deserve a second term as the country president as he has continuously disregarded the people who voted him into office. The president told Nigerians to their faces that he does not give a damn when asked to declare his assets, a constitutional requirement on assuming the office of the president.”
On the proposed scrapping of the office of the First Lady by the presidential standard bearer of the APC, MEND commended Buhari for his plans, saying:
“This is obviously an irrelevant, fraudulent and unconstitutional office, whose only purpose is to further plunder the resources of the country.
“In the wake of the missing Chibok girls the first lady, rather than being embarrassed by her husband’s inability to handle the situation, was instead worried about his tarnished legacy and even considered the Bringback-our Girls campaigners as nuisance and upsetting to their daily exercise of redirecting Nigeria’s resources to the their private coffers.”
The MEND also expressed disappointment over the poor development policy of President Jonathan in the Niger Delta region and insisted that: “Since Jonathan assumed office, the region has experienced excruciating poverty faced by the people, worse pollution and environmental degradation and not once has he ever come out to openly condemn the destruction of our environment by the activities of irresponsible oil companies.”
“It is very clear that the Niger Delta region now regrets voting an incompetent leader who they believed would transform the region, in spite of our earlier warnings about Jonathan. He has only succeeded in infecting the region with poverty, corruption and mal-administration. This is our chance not to repeat this costly blunder of 2011.”
“We challenge every Niger Deltan to ask himself if the region is any better under Jonathan than it was under the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. We are convinced that the people of the Niger Delta have woken up to realise that voting Jonathan simply because of tribe was the biggest mistake they made.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) therefore urges Nigerians to ignore the empty threats and provocative comments from political thugs parading themselves as ex-militants and Freedom Fighters.”
See http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/mend-endorses-buhari-s-presidential-bid/198576/
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