Niger Delta Avengers militants vows to declare Niger Delta independence on October 1

Nigeria: The Niger Delta militant group, The Niger Delta Avengers, (NDA) has vowed to declare the Niger Delta region a republic on October 1, 2016. Spokesman for the dialogue team for the group, Ballantyne Agiri, had on Wednesday signaled the readiness of the group to engage the federal government of Nigeria in dialogue in order to resolve the lingering crisis in the region. However, spokesman for the group, Gen Mudoch Agbinibo, has denied the report saying that “Ballantyne Agiri” was not authorized to speak on behalf of the militant group.


In a statement released on the Niger Delta Avengers website on Thursday, Agbinibo insisted that the Niger Delta no longer wants to be part of Nigeria.

“Our prayer for Buhari and the Northern hypocrite (Northern Governors) is that oil should be found in commercial quantity in the North, so they can let the Niger Delta go.

“The Buhari-led government has failed Nigerians with their misdirected policies that has divide the country,as such nobody wants to be part of that failed state not even the Niger Delta.

“The October 1st, declaration of independence is still sacrosanct. If the Nigeria government fails to retrace it’s step by restructuring this country, we want to warn the general public that the day of reckoning is close for those using NDA to defraud people.”