By James Sowole
Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State
Repentant members of Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), in Furupagha, an Ijaw clan in Ondo State, Sunday threatened to prevent the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from conducting the forthcoming elections in the state should the Federal Government fail to recognise their former leader, known as Creek Lion in the proposed dialogue with MEND.
The position of the ex-freedom fighters was revealed in a statement made available to newsmen in Akure, the Ondo State capital, by it spokesman, Ebakormor Ayebi.
Ayebi said if the leader of the ex-militants in the state known as “creek lion” is not carried along in the proposed dialogue with other leaders of MEND, the group would not to allow elections to take place in the entire state come April,2 to 16.
He threatened that the group, under the leadership of “creek lion” was prepared to call on all ex-freedom fighters in the creeks of Gbelebu, Taribor, Ebijaw, Zion, Makporo, Kolonbou, Ubagbororo, Siluko, Kekere, Ofinege, Okwa, Madagbayo and Ezide against the election should the government take the warning lightly.
The central body of MEND had, last week, issued a threat that it would unleash terror in some parts of the country, including Abuja and Lagos, and political gatherings over what the group described as President Goodluck Jonathan defiant approach to the demands of the freedom fighters on post-amnesty programme of the Federal Government.
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Repentant members of Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), in Furupagha, an Ijaw clan in Ondo State, Sunday threatened to prevent the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from conducting the forthcoming elections in the state should the Federal Government fail to recognise their former leader, known as Creek Lion in the proposed dialogue with MEND.
The position of the ex-freedom fighters was revealed in a statement made available to newsmen in Akure, the Ondo State capital, by it spokesman, Ebakormor Ayebi.
Ayebi said if the leader of the ex-militants in the state known as “creek lion” is not carried along in the proposed dialogue with other leaders of MEND, the group would not to allow elections to take place in the entire state come April,2 to 16.
He threatened that the group, under the leadership of “creek lion” was prepared to call on all ex-freedom fighters in the creeks of Gbelebu, Taribor, Ebijaw, Zion, Makporo, Kolonbou, Ubagbororo, Siluko, Kekere, Ofinege, Okwa, Madagbayo and Ezide against the election should the government take the warning lightly.
The central body of MEND had, last week, issued a threat that it would unleash terror in some parts of the country, including Abuja and Lagos, and political gatherings over what the group described as President Goodluck Jonathan defiant approach to the demands of the freedom fighters on post-amnesty programme of the Federal Government.
thisdaylive.com/articles/mend-threatens-april-polls-in-ondo/88192/
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