Unyielding Avengers Vow To Declare Niger Delta Independence On October 1

Militant group, Niger Delta Avengers has vowed to declare the Niger Delta region an independent entity on October 1, 2016.

The group had on Wednesday, denied ever agreeing to dialogue with the federal government, after self-acclaimed spokesman” for the dialogue group of the Avengers, Ballantyne Agiri, indicated the readiness of the group to engage the federal government in dialogue in order to resolve the lingering crisis.

In a statement on Thursday issued by its spokesman, Mudoch Agbinibo,  Avengers declared 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.