The NDPA, a socio-cultural group with massive followers across the oil-rich region, specifically warned Buhari against using the Presidential Amnesty Programme initiated by the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, and the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) as political tools to settle a few bigwigs of his party in the South-South.
President-General of the group, Chief Tombra Ekpedekumo, said in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja, that the Niger Delta people should not be treated as conquered species simply because the region is not on fire after the harassment, intimidation and political manipulation to force President Goodluck Jonathan out of power.
“The harassment, intimidation and political manipulation through the use of the “Card-Rigger” by INEC and its collaborators in the recently conducted presidential election to force President Jonathan out of office remained a bitter pill to swallow for the Niger Delta people.
“The region is not on fire basically because of some considerations, which is the peace and unity of Nigeria that President Jonathan has been preaching”, the group noted.
The NDPA said the outcome of the 2015 presidential election, in which President Jonathan, an Ijaw from the minority Niger Delta region was forced out of office through institutional and organised conspiracy, was a testament to the age-long view that Nigeria as a political entity merely existed in name.
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