Are Niger Delta Avengers really ready to settle with the federal government?

The Niger Delta Avengers have threatened to separate the oil-producing region from the rest of Nigeria.

“The genesis of these frivolous accusations against former President Jonathan started after he visited President Buhari a few weeks ago and after the meeting while speaking with the media he said that everybody desires peace and that the leaders of the Ijaw nation are working hard to achieve peace in the Niger Delta region including himself”. Nigeria Force Public Relations Officer, Donald Awunah said such plan would not only be provocative, but daring of the Federal Government.

The most active of the many militant groups in the oil-rich Niger Delta region, the Niger Delta Avengers surfaced early this year and have since contributed to a steep drop in crude oil production.

The militant group added that they do not know Agiri and that he can not say that he was speaking on their behalf.

“Our prayer for Buhari and the Northern hypocrite [Northern Governors] is that oil should be found in commercial quantity in the North, so they can let the Niger Delta go”, Agbinibo added in the statement, apparently referring to efforts to commence oil exploration in the country’s side of the Lake Chad basin and elsewhere. The police and other security agencies will not allow any treasonable action to be perpetrated in any part of the country.

Jonathan in a statement signed by his media aide, Ikechukwu Eze said that the probe reported to have emanated from intelligence reports was laughable as it was a figment of imagination by the authors of such reports.

Flowing from the same warped reasoning, his speedy denial is also evidence that he had a hand in the terrorism occasioned by the radical Islamic sect, but we know that is not true because Boko Haram tried to kill Mr. Buhari.

Avengers said discovery of oil in commercial quantity, the people of the region would also appreciate the challenges facing the people of the Niger Delta.

“The Buhari-led government has fail Nigerians with their misdirected policies that has divided the country, as such, nobody wants to be part of that failed state not even the Niger Delta”.

In a statement in Warri, Delta state, by its General Secretary Tony Uranta, UNDEDSS said it was assisting the federal government to draw up a proposal that should be help to end the crisis in Niger Delta.