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Nigerian ex-President, Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said the
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) is still plotting to
assassinate him, just as he denied being a sponsor of the Niger Delta Avengers
(NDA).
He spoke four days ago after he visited Pres. Buhari is
Abuja saying there’s no alternative to Nigeria’s unity.
Jonathan was at the Presidential Villa on August 3, two days after the NDA’s botched attempt to declare Niger Delta Republic in Kaiama, Bayelsa State.
In a statement in Abuja by his media aide Ikechukwu Eze, Jonathan said he was responding to the claims that he is a sponsor of NDA “to the extent that the group’s hidden intent poses a violent threat” to his life.
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike and the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide also dismissed claims that they were behind NDA, which has been bombing oil installations and platforms in Niger Delta.
Jonathan’s statement reads: “For the avoidance of doubt, we are fully convinced that such an idiotic claim is too cheap a narrative, a facile contrivance so badly concocted that any discerning mind would easily see through its disingenuous and duplicitous nature.
“We are also not bothered by this baseless accusation, contented that we are not the only ones conversant with Jonathan’s widely-acknowle
“We are, however, seized by the feeling of déjà vu occasioned by the resurrection of one dim character masquerading as ‘Cynthia White’, who had in the past served as the spokesperson for a notorious group that had all along shown its hand to be going after the life of Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.
“Nigerians could recall that in 2007 when Jonathan emerged as the running mate to the late President Umaru Yar’Adua in the People’s Democratic Party during that year’s presidential election, this very group invaded Yenagoa with hundreds of militants in an effort to assassinate him. Jonathan was only saved
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