The Ijaw Youth Council (Worldwide), IYC, has dissociated itself from call by an ex-militant leader, Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, for Niger Delta militants to
return to the creeks as a way of protesting the defeat of President Goodluck Jonathan in the just-concluded presidential election.
On the contrary, the IYC said it would cooperate with the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), but closely monitor and observe the “dance steps” of his administration.
President of the IYC, Mr. Udengs Eradiri, disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday after reading a communiqué issued at the end of its meeting held at Tuomo community in Delta State to review the outcome of the March 28, 2015 Presidential election.
Dokubo-Asari, leader of the defunct Niger-Delta Peoples Volunteers Force, had in a statement by his media aide, Mr. Rex Anighoro, stated that the voting pattern showed that the South-West and the North “ganged up” against the South-South and South-East geo-political zones.
The ex-Niger Delta warlord believed it was unfair that the minorities were being emasculated by the majority ethnic groups.
Reacting to this, Eradiri noted that Dokubo-Asari, was an individual like any other Nigerian, who had a right to his views.
Hear him, “Well, Alhaji Dokubo-Asari is an individual, who has a right to his views. Being a leader in the Niger-Delta, he may be saying things based on the way he sees it. The fact that we have also taken a decision does not mean that other structures or individuals will not make one or two comments as a result of immediate reactions to the way the Presidential election went.
“But the institution that leads the organisation, we, the youths of Niger Delta, have made our position. Every other person may look at it in their own way, but we have decided to look at Buhari’s administration and see how it will go and we will know the steps to take.
“We don’t have any plan for violence and returning to the creeks. Ijaw and Niger Delta youths should be calm, peaceful and maintain the existing peace in the Niger Delta region,” the IYC president said.
He was however saddened by what he described as the deliberate efforts by the core North and a section of the South-West “to frustrate the administration of Jonathan and force him out of power through false media propaganda and insurgency in the North in connivance with some foreign countries.”
Eradiri, who accused the unnamed foreign countries of displaying “obvious bias during the electoral process,” said “the Ijaw nation, satisfied with the performance and conduct of President Jonathan in office, will warmly welcome him back home from national service.”
Source: GLOBAL REPORTERS
Don't listen to him tooo,let hi go and waste his life alone in the Creek, he has collected money let him go and die alone.Remember how Gen.Buhari packaged Umaru Dikko in crate enroute Nigeria.,the man will not forgive you,in an attempt to destabilise his government,You av been warned.
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