[left][right]By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South MILITANTS in the Niger Delta have inundated South-South leader and Convener of the Pan Niger –Delta Forum, PANDEF, Chief Edwin Clark, with threat text messages and emails, asking him, former military governor of old Rivers State, King Alfred Diete-Spiff, and ex-governor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Victor Attah, to discontinue all engagements on the region’s peace process with the Federal Government as they have lost confidence in the body. Osinbajo Sunday Vanguard learned that the militants and youths in the region had agreed to take their destiny in their hands and, consequently, notified the elders to step aside so that they would bring oil production in the country to zero since government was not interested in proper conversation.

They maintained that Niger Delta stakeholders, including traditional rulers, militants, youths, women and professionals, gave a clear mandate, last year, to PANDEF to discuss on their behalf with government, but it seemed the talks had stalled. Speaking to Sunday Vanguard at his Abuja residence, at the weekend, Clark, who confirmed the threat messages, said: “I do not know who gave them my telephone numbers and email. I receive calls and messages everyday that they are tired, that they gave us 60-day window to discuss with the Federal Government, now almost a year after, they are tired. “My telephones are filled up with text messages and threats. The last PANDEF meeting we held in Yenagoa, they sent me a message that they learned that we were having a meeting and that I should know they had lost confidence in us. They said some youths would be having a meeting in Port Harcourt and they would identify with the youths and publish it in the newspaper, and they published in Vanguard two days after, Monday, 17th July, warning that they had lost confidence in us. “They mentioned me particularly and King Diete Spiff and Victor Attah, that we allowed ourselves to be used by these people, that they will not listen to us and that they will take their destiny in their own hands. So, they have been threatening, saying that they are tired of waiting.” The PANDEF leader pointed out that the youths complained that nobody was listening to them anymore probably because they gave their mandate to the group, accusing that “we have taken money from government.” One of the militant groups that warned PANDEF leaders, Niger Delta Revolutionary Crusaders, NDRC, claiming to be a pan-Niger Delta advocacy and liberation movement, in an electronic mail to Clark, earlier this month , said: “We honestly advise our eminent royal fathers and distinguished personalities in PANDEF to stop all engagements on behalf of the people and resources of the Niger Delta. Though we appreciate their sacrifice and service over the years, they have not been able to unshackle our people from the chain of slavery. “We acknowledge the sacrifice of Chief E.K. Clark at 90 as well as the sacrifice of HRM Alfred Diete Spiff, His Excellency Victor Attah and all distinguished personalities of the PANDEF. But we want to state that slave masters do not and would never understand the language of platitude. We suspect collusion between them and the slave masters to further their personal interests.” However, in an email to Sunday Vanguard, yesterday, the spokesperson for the group, WOI Izon Ebi, clarified: “The NDRC and the 21st century youths and agitators of the Niger Delta’s statement calling on PANDEF to stop its advocacy and representation of the Niger Delta people and its resources was not borne out of their ineffectiveness, rather, it was borne out of the fact that the mode and style of their advocacy has been overtaken by present day reality. “We have resolved and are more determined to use all necessary means to take back our ancestral heritage by stopping all activities of exploration and exportation in Nigeria on the 31st of September 2017. And when that time comes, heaven will not fall.” In previous statements, which jolted PANDEF and other stakeholders, the militants had declared: “Therefore, the 21st century youths of the Niger Delta do not have confidence in their advocacy. We, therefore, advise them to step down so that we can take our future and that of our children in our hands. We, the NDRC, and the 21st century youths of the Niger Delta equivocally state that there is nothing we would not give to unshackle our people from the chain of slavery. “We would fight till the last drop of our blood until justice and equity is enthroned in our land because we cannot afford to bequeath this type of society to our children. Peace without justice is not the same as justice before peace. We would not allow anybody to bequeath peace of the grave yard on us. “We are also aware of a section of the political north to ramp up bombing and insecurity in the north east to use it as a bulwark to capture political power in 2019, just as they did in 2015, though foisting an ineffectual political leadership in the country, we advise them to thread with caution, what worked in 2015 would not necessarily work in 2019 “The same means that pipelines were blown to bring our production to 800barrels a day from 2.5million can be activated again. We want the federal government to realize that the same way we blow and destroy one pipeline is the same way we are capable of blowing and destroying all pipelines in 24 hours because we have the records and maps of all pipelines and exporting terminals. “The white shark, the custodian of the aquatic heritage is just waiting for the D-day. It is time for the federal government to know that our agitation today is borne out of marginalization and oppression, as championed by our late hero, Major Isaac Jasper Adaka Boro. The federal government should act fast because there is no time, as the clock is ticking.’’

source - http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/07/militants-write-clark-pandef-leaders-issue-threat/


[Justified]

This is time to free the masses.
Thy were right.

Advocacy group made up of our political elders has indeed failed the masses, And how would a 90 old man that can die any moment from now take a decision that will favour the unborn kids across niger delta States .


The youths should have been engaged in the dialogue while elders play an advisory role but this is Nigeria, what do I even know.

Aftermath of the hostilities witness last year still there is no economic blueprint to developing niger delta States and mind you the North is mining their own solid minerals resources without any government interference as well as benefiting more from the proceed of niger delta oil.

Democracy without equity is dictatorship.

Nigerian government is a 21st century scam.

Who are the militants? Are they not the boys of Old Clark?

Whenever he needs money, attention and relevance he uses militants to disturb so that government will call him for negotiations as a middleman. Useless people


We are still waiting for them to declare their militant republic... Bunch of disgrace to the Ijaw nation

Politics for 2019 is building up...

We understand

Clark is pro pdp negotiating for militants...

It's understandable where the threat are coming from...

Jonathan's Camp to destabilise the country to pave way for PDP in 2019...

It's well...

TonyeBarcanista:
Who are the militants? Are they not the boys of Old Clark?

Whenever he needs money, attention and relevance he uses militants to disturb so that government will call him for negotiations as a middleman. Useless people


We are still waiting for them to declare their militant republic... Bunch of disgrace to the Ijaw nation

na for okochiri e go first start from no worry.

anibi9674:
na for okochiri e go first start from no worry.

Wetin dem de wait for?

BTW even Ateke go comot hand.

TonyeBarcanista:
Who are the militants? Are they not the boys of Old Clark?

Whenever he needs money, attention and relevance he uses militants to disturb so that government will call him for negotiations as a middleman. Useless people


We are still waiting for them to declare their militant republic... Bunch of disgrace to the Ijaw nation

Now, you who is not a disgrace to ijaw, what have you achieved for the betterment of ijaw Diabolical confused people can sell their mother to their enemy out of stupidity

REDshouse:
Politics for 2019 is building up...

We understand

Clark is pro pdp negotiating for militants...

It's understandable where the threat are coming from...

Jonathan's Camp to destabilise the country to pave way for PDP in 2019...

It's well...

one thing is constant... They will/have fail/failed

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evilyoruba:

Now, you who is not a disgrace to ijaw, what have you achieved for the betterment of ijaw Diabolical confused people can sell their mother to their enemy out of stupidity

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Says a troll iPod yoot...

Ijaw means truth... We stand for truth and justice. Unlike IPod, we don't revere criminals no matter what media Polish them to be.


BTW: That will be my final response to you

for the new atack an booming in the country now, i belif u guys the hv started again to mak the country ungorvenable so that people will belif dat is only a northena how can figth BH.