Leader of the defunct Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, including High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, aka Tompolo, are reported by Vanguard to have summoned commanders and leaders of the various wings of the supposedly rested militant group to an emergency meeting expected to hold in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
Tompolo, who is the Ibe-Ebidouwei of Ijaw nation, and convener of the meeting was silent on the agenda of the meeting due to hold on Saturday, but asserted that the meeting, which will hold at Izon House in Yenagoa, was important.
According to the invite, “My dearly beloved Commanders and Leaders of various wings of the Movement of the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), I greet you all. It is my pleasure to humbly invite you to a very crucial and urgent meeting…”
The newspaper was confided in by a source that “The place of the Niger Delta in the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari and appraisal of the former President Goodluck Jonathan government in view of the current happenings in the country will be tabled for discussion at the meeting.”
He added, “The meeting is restricted only to those invited, it is not an all comers meeting, we will make our position known after the meeting.”
The forthcoming meeting will be the first time all ex-commanders and leaders of the militant group will formally meet since they were disbanded in 2009.
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