Ijaw Militant group, the Adaka Boro Avengers (ABA), who vowed to declare
the Independent Republic of Niger Delta today August 1st, have
jettisoned the decision saying former President Goodluck Jonathan
reached out and appealed to them to rescind on their decision. The group
stated this in a statement released this evening. The statement reads
in part;
“We adhere to the voice of our people, because our struggle is for the
Niger Delta people and not for selfish reason. But this is not the end.
More has yet to come. Our mission to cripple the economy of the Nigerian
nation will not stop until the Nigerian government is ready to sit on a
roundtable to dialogue and to restructure the Nigeria. We received
calls from prominent leaders like Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Mrs.
Ankio Briggs, Chief E. K. Clark and especially King Alfred Diete Spiff
calling on the freedom fighters to abort their mission to declare Niger
Delta Republic. Unless that, we will not stop until Nigeria becomes a
zero economy. We are also saying this for the benefit of President
Muhammadu Buhari and Nigerian government to stop wasting their time with
those greedy fellows that call themselves MEND because nothing good
will come out of them rather than sabotage. Everything they are saying,
not even one will be accomplished. We will never agree with anything
they say and henceforth MEND should watch their back because we have
tolerated them for a very long time. Enough is enough, since they want
to set confusion in the Niger Delta we will start from them.โ
