In any case, NDDCG responding through the facilitator, Dr. Judith Asuni, told Vanguard, "Dissimilar to the gatherings set up to arrange between different activist gatherings and the Nigerian government, NDDCG, has the long haul objective of exchange, not transaction."
The militant group was reacting to a recent statement by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, that NDDCG would act as a clearinghouse for “all mushroom and internet-based militant groups in the region.
“We wish to draw attention of the Federal Government, particularly the National Security Adviser, NSA and all relevant authorities that the self-styled Niger Delta Dialogue and Contact Committee, coordinated by Dr. Ajuni and chaired by Diette-Spiff, do not have the mandate to negotiate for the protesting groups in the creeks of the Niger Delta.
“On Diette-Spiff, we would have since denounced him but we allowed him to exhaust all his lies to the President and security agencies before we react. He has never discussed with any of the groups nor has he sent any emissaries to us, but rather he has been gallivanting and parading himself as the chairman of an alleged Niger Delta Contact and Dialogue Committee.
“To the President and Government of Nigeria, we are aware that you are buying time to embark on a military onslaught. This we are aware but we promise that the worst of our economic campaign through the bombardment of key oil and gas facilities has not reached the peak yet. This means, the worst is yet to come.
“The next phase of our attacks and bleeding operations in conjunction with the Niger Delta Avengers, the Niger Delta Joint Liberation Force, Egbesu Red Water Lions, Ultimate Warriors among others would isolate Nigeria from OPEC as zero export is our target.
“We have not given mandate to any group of persons to negotiate with the Federal Government on our demands.”
Addressing Vanguard, Dr. Asuni, said: "NDDCG is not adjusted to any gathering. The Niger Delta Dialogue, which hung on June 10, 2016 in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State united 50 trustworthy pioneers from over the six conditions of the South zone." "Agents of the Federal Government joined the pioneers in talk of basic issues going up against the Niger Delta. The discourse administrator, HRM Diete-Spiff drove a three-man group to brief President Buhari about the meeting, present him with a duplicate of the report, and to educate him about the development of a contact bunch. "The abnormal state NDDCG has the objective of persistent exchange amongst government and the general population of the Niger Delta. He said that the gathering would filter out the center issues, convey them to the table, and distil conceivable arrangements."
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