Group warns FG to stop harassing ex-militant, says APC is clueless

dimeji akinloye

January 21, 2016 8:17 PM

He said the APC cannot fight everybody at the same time.

Former Niger Delta militant, Government Ekpemupolo, aka Tompolo (pictured)

In defence of Government Ekpemupolo popularly Tompolo known as Tompolo, who is being accused of N11.8billion fraud, the Niger Deltan Patriotic Alliance (NPDA) has urged the Federal Government to stop harassing the ex-militant.

While addressing journalists on Thursday, Jan. 21, in Uyo, the group said the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is clueless.

“Just as we witnessed between 1983 and 1984, our nation is fast disintegrating into a lawless era of arbitrariness and cluelessness powered by an abysmally weakgrasp of what it takes to govern a nation in the modern era”, the spokesman for the group, Offiong Udo, said.

He said the APC cannot fight everybody at the same time, adding that: “the present administration appears clueless, just staggering from one missed step to another, utterly incapable of turning around our impending economic woes, and instead, pretending it is doing something by pushing our country into a frightening quagmire of national crisis by fighting everyone that does not agree with it.

“It is extremely fool-hardy to be stuck with Boko Haram in the North-East while opening up new fronts with IPOB, MASSOB, Shiites, Yoruba elders and now Niger Deltan militants at the same time,” the group claimed that “finally, those who claim to be best suited to rule have now exposed themselves as too provincially minded for the challenges of the modern world.”

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had alleged that Tompolo defrauded Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) of N11.8b.

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