The Niger Delta Development Force (NDDF) has warned that it would resume hostilities on oil facilities if any court gives order to stop local government allocations in Rivers State.
The group, which alleges the involvement of the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, in the plot, has called on the President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government not to yield to the moves, to use courts to seize allocations meant for the 23 local government councils in Rivers State, for personal gains.
The group gave the warning on Sunday, threatening to bomb and shut down oil facilities and installations in the region if any judge in the country gives an order stopping local government allocations in Rivers State.
It (NDDF) also warned the Federal Government not to resurrect the restiveness, agitations and militancy the former Presidents Umaru Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan fought so hard to end through the amnesty programme.
Spokesman of the group, Justin Alabraba, told newsmen on Sunday, that any judgement from any court in Abuja on Monday or any other day, that denies LGs in Rivers State their statutory allocations would be met with heavy and devastating destruction of strategic oil installations across the region.
Alabraba said: “Let them try it on Monday or any other day, and see what will happen. We will shut down major oil pipelines and production installations, and it will be the beginning of the worst to come. Nyesom Wike cannot be using Tinubu’s powers to cause problems in Rivers State without any consequences.“
He said that leaders of the region have been raising the alarm and cautioning minister’s “enablers to reign in on him to halt the assault on the State and the Government of Sir Siminalayi Fubara,” warning that the wise counsel appears to be falling on deaf ears.
Alabraba reminded President Tinubu that any attempt to destabilise Rivers State would spiral into serous destabilisation of the entire Niger Delta, saying that Rivers State is the headquarters of the region.
He warned that crude oil and gas production in the region will suffer unprecedented suffocation if any untoward judgement is delivered against Rivers State or any part thereof, and cautioned judges allegedly being used by the minister to be mindful of the consequences of their actions.
The group said that they can no longer watch and see the minister suffocate the State with Federal might and Abuja-based judges to procure judgements designed to undermine Governor Fubara, the Government and people of the State.
According to the group, one of the Federal High Court, Abuja, judges is set to deliver judgement on Monday, to allegedly stop statutory allocations to LGs in Rivers State.
The group alleged that “the judge’s actions and body language have since sold her out as a judicial officer ready and willing to act in unprofessional manner by pandering to the whims and caprices of desperate and self-serving politicians.”
