A whooping sum of N15billion has allegedly been moved by the Presidency to
the Amnesty office to fund Militant Groups in the Niger Delta region to
destabilize votes in that area during elections, a source at the Amnesty
office has told pointblanknews.com.
According to the Source, a former Niger Delta Militant who want to remain
anonymous, the money was moved to the office of the Special Adviser to the
President on Niger Delta/Amnesty Program, Professor Charles Dokubo.
Professor Dokubo is expected to disburse the huge sums to selected Niger
Delta Militant Groups in the Niger Delta area for them to share to members
and mobilize to destabilize voting processes during the Presidential
elections scheduled for February 16, 2019.
The source told Pointblanknews.com that the move by the Presidency became
necessary in view of the findings that President Mohammadu Buhari cannot
win the North Central States of Benue, Kogi, Plateau and Nasarawa.
According to the source, the strategy is solely to reduce the votes in the
South South States of Rivers, Edo, Delta, Cross Rivers and Akwa Ibom
states to even up and cushion the effect of an eventual defeat in the
North Central States.
“Buhari knows he cannot win the North Central States, so the strategy is
for him to reduce the votes in the South South States so he can even up
his loses in the North Central. The funds is specifically to give to all
the identified Militant groups in the South South.”
The source said Militants would be paid to snatch ballot boxes, destroy
ballot papers, shoot sporadically at polling booths to intimidate and
scare voters in the South South states.
“The task is simple. The militant groups who are being paid would mobilize
and head to polling booths, shoot, snatch ballot boxes, destroy all voting
materials and make sure voters feel insecure to cast votes. This, they
believe would reduce the amount of votes coming from that region,” said
the source.
Efforts to reach the Amnesty office and the Presidency to confirm or deny
the allegation proved abortive and none was willing to speak on the
matter.