Akpabio Taking Us For A Ride – Ateke Tom, Backs Tompolo On 7-Day Ultimatum

Former Niger Delta militant leader and now Amayanabo (king) Okochiri Kingdom in Rivers State, HRM King Micheal Ateke Tom has accused Senator Godswill Akpabio of taking the people of the Niger Delta for a ride.

He has as such given his backing to the seven-day ultimatum given by erstwhile MEND leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo alias Tompolo to inaugurate the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.

Ateke Tom was the leader of the Niger Delta Vigilante Force which held sway during the years of militancy.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that Tompolo, had recently given President Muhammadu Buhari a seven-day ultimatum for the inauguration of a new NDDC board.

Dismissing Akpabio’s stance, Ateke Tom in a statement on Friday through his Chief of Staff, Chief Tamunokonba Akaluogbo, affirmed that there could be no going back on the ultimatum for the inauguration.

Ateke Tom said that all stakeholders in the region desire were desirous of sustaining the existing peace in the region despite the rising insecurity in the South East and other regions, saying “the setting up of a substantive board is not too small to ask by a region disposed to keeping the peace and rejecting secessionist pressure.”

“It is clear that Akpabio is deceitful and he means no good to the Niger Delta region particularly the Ijaws given his attitude towards reconstituting the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. Time and time, the Minister has failed in his promises and he is using the forensic audit as a decoy for his selfish aims.

“I urged him to do the needful before the region tint towards upheaval of breakdown of law and order again because his ineptitude and lack of genuine concern for the demands of people are capable of degenerating into violence which I don’t pray for”, the statement said.

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