Niger Delta crisis: MEND withdraws support for Buhari
THE Movement for the Emancipation of the
Niger Delta said on Sunday that it had withdrawn its support for
President Muhammadu Buhari and passed a vote of no confidence on his
administration.
MEND, in a statement signed by its
spokesperson, Jomo Gbomo, suggested that its current position was based
on President Buhari’s poor handling of the Niger Delta crisis.
The militant group lamented that after
the MEND/FG dialogue which was publicly confirmed by the President in
his farewell remarks to Mr. Michael Zinner, the out-going German
Ambassador to Nigeria, Buhari reneged on the agreements reached at the
dialogue.
It pointed that President Buhari wrote
and signed “damaging and prejudicial letter to the Government of South
Africa in an attempt to truncate the ongoing peace process in Nigerian,
adding that such an action sabotaged the legal options open to Henry
Okah, who is currently in South African prison.
It demanded that Niger Delta militant
commanders arrested during the ceasefire declared ahead of talks with
government should not be tortured or killed, but allowed access to their
lawyers, and other relevant bodies 
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