NIGERIA: WE'RE NOT HAPPY, BY MILITANTS

We note with nostagia the jungle manner in which Dr Goodluck Jonathan was declared the Acting President and Commander-In-Chief of the Nigerian State. Typical of the Nigerian State, they could not uphold their own imposed Constitution. Their own Constitution provides for the Vice President to be sworn in as Acting President when the President transmits a letter to the National Assembly. This has not been complied with anything other than that amounts to illegality. The purported interview granted the British Broadcasting Corporation by the deserter President can never approximated to a former/official letter which ought to be duly endorsed by the writer. The deserting act of Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'Adua can only be appropriately categorised as gross misconduct and should naturally have attracted an impeachment. This ought to have been followed by the swearing in of the Vice President as substantive President, not in an acting capacity. As it stands now, Dr Goodluck Jonathan's Acting Presidency is an illegality cleverly crafted by those who feel that Niger Delta is a conquered territory and can only be plundered and looted. They have decided to make him a lame duck ruler as a check on him.

Whatever happens, We shall not allow anything to deter in our resolve to wage a continuous revolutionary war to liberate all parts of our territory - not even a Jonathan Presidency. We are even more convinced more than ever before that a Niger Delta independence through armed struggle is the forward. Before we got to this position, we gave room for dialogue by consistently calling for the convocation of a Sovereign National Conference as the only peaceful way of resolving the Niger Delta question, but the operators of the Nigerian State did not accept. Where peaceful change is made impossible, violent change becomes inevitable.

For the records, this current effort is a nationalist one and not the militancy of agents of politicians who claim to be fighting for the development of the Niger Delta as a way of negotiating for juicy positions in Nigerian government. Any claim of attack that does not demand the independence of Niger Delta should be disregarded by all and considered as a distraction from this main course.

We wish to state without eqivocation that JRC is coordinating this campaign as the highest decision making body on tactics and strategies and by implication the Military guide of the Revolution. JRC is comprised of individuals and groups who are fighting for Niger Delta nationhood. Expect more actions in the coming days. He that is down fear no fall!

The Struggle is Unstoppable!

Long Live The Niger Delta Federation!


Bakabio Walter
Spokesman, Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC) of Niger Delta