NIGER DELTA SHAKING AGAIN!

DESPITE the trouble-shooting initiative of Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, and the heightened security activities in the Niger Delta, Nigeria’s main oil and gas region, the area can easily cycle into a new wave arms rebellion. The Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC) of freedom fighters in the volatile oil region has warned that Nigeria’s honey comb is capable of being angry with former President Goodluck Jonathan. Spokesperson for the insurgents platform, Cynthia Whyte, in an online statement on Tuesday, added that the same Niger Delta can also boil because of Jonathan. ‘’For his sake, we may be forced to question the laws of gravity. It is simple physics’’, the insurgents said. According to them, ‘’one of the challenges of the Muhammadu Buhari government to get it right with respect to the Niger Delta has been as a result of the antics of satanic elements within the rank and file of agitating groups in the Niger Delta. They are everywhere in the polity today. ‘’Many of them are hardened criminals, unrepentant crooks and workers of grim iniquity. They exist to con and to mislead. They do that for a living. They cannot be saved. They remain eternally condemned. ‘’The Niger Delta cannot rise at the price that Nigeria now offers’’. They are however, of the view that there is good reason to believe that Osinbajo has shown good intellect and a comfortable measure of wisdom. ‘’In the past few months, he had said the right words and a good number of people in the Niger Delta have expressed satisfaction with his utterances’’, the group said. Continuing, they added, ‘’we will continue to watch with cautious optimism. Yet again, we sometimes wonder, where was all that intellect and wisdom when his principal was on the saddle. ‘’It is important that we commend former President Jonathan for watering the ground much before the trip by Osinbajo. It was Goodluck Jonathan who made Osinbajo's trip a success. ‘’In December 2016, former President Goodluck Jonathan visited Gbaramatu for the presentation of staff to the new paramount ruler of Gbaramatu, Oboro Gbaraun II, Aketekpe Agadagba by the Governor of Delta State. ‘’It is truly difficult to understand why a Goodluck Jonathan, whose tenure has been so vilified, to want to work for the success of the same people who have continued to work so hard to disparage and denigrate him’’.