The
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has, upon careful
consideration of the state of the Nation, endorses and fully support the
Presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress ( APC ), General
Mohammadu Buhari.
Our
decision to throw our full support on General Mohammadu Buhari stems from the
pathetic
state in which the country has been put by the government of Goodluck
Jonathan and our strong believe in General Mohammadu Buhari as the man and
change the country needs.
President
Goodluck Jonathan does not deserve a second more in the Presidency as soon as
his tenure expires as he has continuously and blatantly disregarded the very
people who voted him into office.
A
President that told Nigerian to their faces that he does not “give a damn” when
asked to declare his assets. A requirement that is constitutional on assuming
the office of the President.
President
Jonathan, since assuming his office, has setup countless number of
“Committees”, none of which their reports has 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 highly corrupt person like Goodluck Jonathan to fight
corruption when he believes that “stealing is not corruption”, as he
shamelessly told the Nation? He has proven beyond all reasonable doubt, his
inability to tackle corruption or prosecute a single government official in his
six (6) years in office.
MEND
finds it laughable the recent statement by Goodluck Jonathan on his governments
plan to fight corruption. This statement not only smacks of ignorance to the
highest order, but also shows just how stupid he thinks Nigerians are. A
president that had six years to tackle the problem but chose to shield corrupt
government officials, joined in the looting of our resources 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 re-state
our disregard and lack of confidence in President Goodluck
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.
Goodluck
Jonathan’s actions, utterances and arrogance prove that he is totally
disconnected with the situation facing the ordinary Nigerian and completely out
of touch with reality.
Office Of The First Lady
MEND
commends General Mohammad Buhari for his plans, when elected as President, to
scrap the so-called “Office of the First Lady”. This is obviously an
irrelevant, fraudulent and unconstitutional office, whose only purpose is to
further plunder the resources of the country.
Nigerians and the EFCC appear to have forgotten that
this “First Lady” Mrs Patience Jonathan was in the process of being
charged with attempts to launder stolen money to the United Kingdom,
barely a few months after President Jonathan was sworn in as President. The
same offence former Governor James Ibori was charged with.
In the wake of the still-missing Chibok school girls
abduction, the “First Lady”, rather than being embarrassed by her husbands
inability on how to handle the situation, was instead worried about his
tarnished legacy and even considered the Bring Back our Girls Campaigners a
nuisance and upsetting to their daily exercise of redirecting Nigeria’s
resources to the their private coffers.
President Jonathan and the PDP have continuously
exploited every national tragedy for political gains. They have politicised the
Boko Haram insurgency for political gains. They used regional and religious
sentiments as a cheap strategy but Nigerians know better.
The
Niger Delta Region
Since President Goodluck Jonathan assumed office, the
Niger Delta 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.
Recent reports confirm the country is losing billions
of Dollars in oil revenue due to oil theft. This theft has been aided by the
pot-bellied Nigerian Army generals, in connivance with corrupt Nigerian
government officials, the Joint Task Force and the Nigerian Navy. It is no
wonder the once respected Nigerian Military has been reduced to a ragtag Army
by the Boko Haram Terrorists. It can only take a bold and courageous man like
General Mohammadu Buhari to tackle the insecurity and oil theft plaguing the
nation. He has done it before and he will and can do it again!
The Niger Delta region has the Ministry of the Niger
Delta, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), the Presidential Amnesty
Programme ( PAP ) and the largest percentage in oil revenue allocation, yet the
region has nothing to show for all these due to a very corrupt government and
system in place. We are confident that a General Mohammadu Buhari presidency
would probe these agencies and divert all stolen revenue back to the
development of the region and Nigeria as a whole.
Regrettably, our so-called “Freedom Fighters”, “Niger
Delta Activists”, “elders”, Royal Fathers and politicised groups such as the
Ijaw Youth Congress (IYC), United Niger Delta Energy Development Security
Strategy (UNDESS) and several other castrated and myopic groups from the region
have lost focus. Rather than speaking out against corruption, impunity,
underdevelopment, degradation of our environment, unemployment and the
impoverished living of the ordinary Niger Deltan, prefer to turn themselves
into political praise singers of the government to enrich themselves while the
region is still licking the wounds of marginalization.
We say you are all
cowards and shame unto you all! You now feast on the sweat and blood of great
Niger Delta leaders like Isaac Adaka Boro and Ken Saro-Wiwa while the region
remains impoverished, underdeveloped and polluted.
It is very clear that the Niger Delta region now
regrets voting a corrupt and incompetent leader who they believed would
transformation to the region, in spite of our earlier warnings about Goodluck
Jonathan. He (Goodluck Jonathan) 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 yourself if the region is any better under Goodluck Jonathan than
it was under a sick Late President Musa Yar'Adua. We are convinced that the
people of the Niger Delta have woken up to realise that voting Goodluck
Jonathan simply because of tribe, was the biggest mistake they made.
The
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) urges Nigerians to
ignore the empty threats and provocative comments from political thugs parading
themselves as “ex-militants” and “Freedom Fighters”. These spineless cowards
want Nigerians to believe that there will be no peace if Goodluck Jonathan is
not re-elected into office despite the billions of dollars spent on the
“Amnesty Programme” to reform these miscreants.
Nigeria needs change, the
Niger Delta needs change and General Mohammadu Buhari is the change the Country
desperately needs.
For our Freedom and Yours.
Jomo Gbomo
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