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2015: We Shall Frustrate Jonathan’s Second Term Bid —N/Delta Ex-militants

Former  lords of the creeks across the Niger Delta have threatened to frustrate President Goodluck Jonathan’s second term bid if he eventually declares his intention.
The position was made known in a statement issued in Warri, Delta State, on Wednesday, by a former  lord of the creeks, General Godday Smith (aka Bounanawei - gods of the Niger Delta).
He alleged that Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Chairman, Presidential Amnesty Programme, Honourable Kinsgley Kuku, had consistently deceived and broken agreement between him and his boys, who are now under the throes of biting hunger and deprivation, despite the facade of a successful amnesty program me being touted by the Federal Government.
 According to the ex-warlord, the president should not be deceived as the effect of the amnesty programme had left behind nothing but nepotism, self-enrichment of executors of the programme, increase in volume of oil production, hunger and deprivation among youths in the region.
“Mr President, do not allow anybody to deceive you, you must know that lasting peace cannot be guaranteed in Niger Delta region until all ex-militants and youths across the Niger Delta region which embraced the amnesty and surrendered their arms are carried along and empowered to directly benefit from the amnesty programme,” General Smith said.
Continuing, the ex-militant said: “I am afraid Mr President, it will surprise you to know that 80 per cent of the ex-militants that have not benefitted in the amnesty programme are not happy with your administration, because they cannot have you from the Niger Delta as president and yet not benefit from a programme initiated and left behind for you by late Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua, who wholeheartedly meant well for all the Niger Delta youths.”
 Alleging that the programme was a wool in the eyes, the ex-militant added: “Mr President, the continued deceit in the President Amnesty Committee, if not quickly addressed, may hinder your perceived presidential ambition come 2015, as aggrieved ex-militants are already mobilising to frustrate your re-election bid, the truth is bitter, but must be said.”
  He pointed out that on June 25, 2009, when late President Yar’Adua granted unconditional amnesty to the then militants in Niger Delta, the laudable initiative was to ensure that all youths involved in the act of militancy and related offences in the region were transformed, made self-reliant and useful to themselves and society at large.
Instead of empowering restive youths and ex-militants form the quagmire of untold hardship, the statement insisted that “what is happening in the amnesty programme today is completely out of place, because we, who are the genuine agitators and ex-militants leaders, have been abandoned and shortchanged with fake ex-militants leaders.”
General Smith, who alleged that Honourable Kuku and others handling the programme had turned it into a personal company and are now running it as their estate, warned that if returning to the creeks is what would guarantee his sustenance and that of his boys, they would not hesitate to do so since the only language government understand was violence.
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