Ex-Militant Leaders Set Up Monitoring Groups For Elections

  Leaders of Ex-Niger Delta militants, yesterday, stated that they had set up groups to monitor the forth coming elections in the country to ensure that President Goodluck Jonathan is not rigged out of power. The ex-militants under the aegis of Leadership, Peace and Cultural Development Initiative, stated this in Port Harcourt on Wednesday. They said that part of the responsibilities of the monitoring group would be to ensure that voters were not harassed or prevented from casting their votes for any candidate.
The President of the group, Mr. Reuben Wilson, said they would work towards ensuring that nobody tampered with the ballot boxes, adding that former warlords decided to be more involved in the electoral process because they were major stakeholders and would not sit and watch people rob the president of victory at the poll. Wilson said, “We have a governor boasting that his party will lead civil disobedience if Mr. President defeats his party in the March 28 presidential election. They are planning to rig. They are planning to use cloned PVCs with the assistance of some INEC officials. “We have also heard some people saying that we, the Niger Delta Freedom Fighters are no more supporting our brother, Goodluck ahead of the March 28 election. Let them continue to dream. “But we wish to inform them that we are aware of their rigging plots and that is why we have decided to form ourselves into monitoring groups to frustrate their agenda.”
source:Today News