No fewer than 600 ex-militants in the Niger Delta yesterday threatened to invade the National Assembly over the summon of the Chairman of the Amnesty Implementation Committee, Kingsley Kuku and the former militant leader, Mujaheed Asari- Dokubo, over their remarks on the 2015 presidential election.
The ex-militant leaders described the House of Representatives summon on the duo as divisive and attempt to foment trouble in the country. This was contained in separate statements issued yesterday in Yenagoa by the President, Leadership, Peace and Cultural Development Initiative LPCDI, Reuben Wilson and a former member of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, Eris Paul alias Gen. Ogunboss.
The ex-militants said their decision to invade the National Assembly was based on the perceived ethnic and parochial intent behind the action of the members of the lower chamber of the Assembly. Paul described such summon as a show of undemocratic tendency on the part of a serving governor, who believed he was protecting the unity of an already ‘disorganised society’ by some ‘northern cabals.’ In the same vein, Wilson argued that the summon by the House of Representatives was a show of bias and double standard in the monitoring of alleged volatile posture of the political class ahead of the 2015 poll.
He said: “We observed that irrespective of the decision made by the House of Representatives, they should know that their inability to arrest the likes of former Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari, over his comment in the Vanguard newspaper of May 15, 2012 and the National Coordinator of the Coalition of Northern Politicians, Academics, Professionals and Businessmen, Dr. Junaidu Mohammed, in The Nation newspaper of March 17, 2013 and Abu King Shuluwa in the Daily Independent of March 8, 2013, made it impossible to arrest Kuku and Asari-Dokubo.”
Paul alleged that the Niger State governor, Aliyu Babangida, was bias and ‘wicked’ in his comments on the political situation in the country.
He said: “It doesn’t make sense for a serving governor, who thinks he is protecting the unity of an already disorganised society by some northern cabals. “If Aliyu thinks he was sincere enough to protect the nation from an impending doom, let him call on the security agencies to begin their investigation on Muhammadu Buhari and others.”
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