FLASHBACK: How Jonathan cancelled a trip to Niger Delta community
On Thursday, President Muhammadu Buhari cancelled his trip to Ogoni in Rivers state. The president was scheduled to travel to the state to inaugurate the process of cleaning up the area.
The cancellation, which has generated uproar particularly on social media, followed the threat of Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), a militant group, on the life of the president.
The group had asked Buhari to sign his “death warrant” before coming to the region.
In November 2014, former President Goodluck Jonathan cancelled his trip to Ogidigben, a community in Warri south-west local government, under a similar circumstance.
Jonathan was supposed to launch the $16 billion Export Processing Zone (EPZ), in the area, but the Ijaws who felt cheated protested because the site of the project was named after an Itsekiri community, without “giving credence to the contributions of the Ijaws whose land also hosted the EPZ”.
Government Ekpomukpolo, popularly known as Tompolo, a former commander of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), asked the former president to stay off from the ceremony until their demands were met.
The security men placed on alert for the planned visit of the president were withdrawn and the protesters celebrated the cancellation.
This is a very cheap comparism. Just a reminder, Buhari is a civil war veteran and a former general of the Nigerian armed forces. What is he afraid of?
Broz this has Nothing to do with Military. Human is more Precious and also whether u like it or not, he’s the d number 1 citizen.
Good to hear that he has value for human life, at least his own.
The President is very right. A war general who knows only attack strategies without tactical withdrawal approach is not a good general. Sorry o Avengers (lol)