EFCC probe: Why we are defending Patience Jonathan – Reformed N-Delta Avengers

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RNDA accuses the EFCC of running a

campaign of calumny against Patience

Jonathan.

Militant group, the Reformed Niger Delta

Avengers (RNDA) has explained why it took

up the EFCC case against former first lady,

Patience Jonathan.

RNDA in a statement on Friday, September

23 by its spokesperson, Cynthia Whyte, said

it wadded into the matter because the anti-

graft commission was clearly running a

campaign of calumny against her.

According to Vanguard, the group recalled

that it accused certain high-profile politicians

from the Niger Delta region, including former

president Goodluck Jonathan, as sponsors or

patrons of the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA).

It said: “The controversy generated by the

revelation was yet to abate before the major

militant groups in the region, including the NDA

unanimously agreed to ceasefire and recognize

the Chief (Dr) Edwin Clark-led pan-Niger Delta

Peace and Dialogue Group as the sole body to

represent the region in the forthcoming dialogue

with the Federal Government.

“Following the development, all stakeholders

from the region were expected to close ranks

and work for the peace and development of the

region. And naturally, we changed our earlier

disposition towards the former President. ”

Youths stage protest for

Patience Jonathan in Rivers (photos)

The group said as the only Nigerian of south-

south extraction to have assumed the

position of president of Nigeria, former

president Goodluck Jonathan, is

automatically, the political leader of the entire

Niger Delta region.

RNDA said Jonathan deserves to be

respected.

Meanwhile, the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) has

attacked the Economic and Financial Crimes

Commission (EFCC) over what it termed

“deliberate witch-hunt” of former President

Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Dame

Patience.

President of the IYC, Engr. Udengs Eradiri

said the commission’s indiscreet media trial

of Tompolo led to the crisis in the Niger Delta

that plunged the country into the current

economic recession.

The group said it is unacceptable and illegal

to place the former first family on media trial

without following due process. Dame

Patience, he said like most former First

Ladies made her money from gifts and

gratifications adding that there was no law

against such gestures.