Nigeria: MEND Threatens April Polls in Ondo

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21 March 2011

Nigeria: MEND Threatens April Polls in Ondo 

Repentant members of Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), in Furupagha, an Ijaw clan in Ondo State, Sunday threatened to prevent the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from conducting the forthcoming elections in the state should the Federal Government fail to recognise their former leader, known as Creek Lion in the proposed dialogue with MEND.

The position of the ex-freedom fighters was revealed in a statement made available to newsmen in Akure, the Ondo State capital, by it spokesman, Ebakormor Ayebi.

Ayebi said if the leader of the ex-militants in the state known as "creek lion" is not carried along in the proposed dialogue with other leaders of MEND, the group would not to allow elections to take place in the entire state come April,2 to 16.