Efio-Ita Nyok|19 August 2016
The South South Zonal Secretariat of the governing All Progressives Congress, APC has urged the federal government to commence investigation into allegations made by the Reformed Niger Delta Avengers, RNDA, which indict some top notch of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP as being sponsors of the activities of the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA.
This information was made known to Negroidhaven.org via a press release made available to us from the Chief Press Secretary to the South-South chair of the governing All Progressives Congress, Bassey Ita. It would be recalled that the RNDA, a splinter group of the NDA had recently alleged that former President Goodluck Jonathan, Senate Minority Leader, Chief Godswill Akpabio, Governors Seriake Dickson and Nyesom Wike among other top notch of the opposition PDP were bankrolling the activities of the NDA which had been involved in oil pipeline vandalism within the last months.
The APC said in a statement by its Zonal Publicity Secretary, Martins Ahweyevu Mukoro and made available to newsmen that "the federal government should investigate the allegations made by the RNDA in keeping with its zero-tolerance posture on insecurity and where found to be true, bring the indicted persons to justice". According to the statement "as they say, there's an element of truth in every rumor, such weighty allegations must not be swept under the carpet or dismissed as the figment of an imagination. And taking such a decisive action as recommended above is one sure way to deal with the recurrence of such criminality in the country." The Zonal spokesman said "the latest revelations by the RNDA only confirm our initial suspicion as a party during our stakeholders meeting in Benin on June this year where we alleged that the Avengers were a militant wing of the PDP".
He described the development as dubious, unpatriotic and criminal and recalled that both the body language and comments credited to the South South PDP governors during their meeting with the Vice President months ago expressed the tendency of the PDP top notch to sponsor the Avengers. According to Mukoro the advice given by the governors in that meeting with the Vice President which warned the federal government to thread softly in its anti corruption fight as a precondition for ending the activities of the NDA" was in itself pregnant with obnoxious implications which of course has tilted in the direction we have seen today". He described the activities of the NDA as tended towards distracting the forward- moving APC government from fixing the missing link in governance and condemned the sponsorship of the group's activities as alleged.
The statement further said the development runs foul of opposition politics, "which should best thrive on logical and ideological engagement of the party in power and not on mindless destruction and criminality as that perpetrated by the militant NDA".
Efio-Ita Nyok
Is a Blogger & the Editor of Negroidhaven.org (Negroid Haven)
