{"id":64597,"date":"2019-02-08T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=64597"},"modified":"2019-02-08T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T15:41:00","slug":"presidency-moves-n15billion-to-amnesty-office-to-fund-militants-to-destabilize-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/presidency-moves-n15billion-to-amnesty-office-to-fund-militants-to-destabilize-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidency Moves N15billion To Amnesty Office To Fund Militants To Destabilize Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A whooping sum of N15billion has allegedly been moved by the Presidency to<br \/>\nthe Amnesty office to fund Militant Groups in the Niger Delta region to<br \/>\ndestabilize votes in that area during elections, a source at the Amnesty<br \/>\noffice has told\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/pointblanknews.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1549726260622000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFTKhOmE35fVTi9Fl-QiKXtFeQNBg\">pointblanknews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Source, a former Niger Delta Militant who want to remain<br \/>\nanonymous, the money was moved to the office of the Special Adviser to the<br \/>\nPresident on Niger Delta\/Amnesty Program, Professor Charles Dokubo.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Dokubo is expected to disburse the huge sums to selected Niger<br \/>\nDelta Militant Groups in the Niger Delta area for them to share to members<br \/>\nand mobilize to destabilize voting processes during the Presidential<br \/>\nelections scheduled for February 16, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The source told Pointblanknews.com that the move by the Presidency became<br \/>\nnecessary in view of the findings that President Mohammadu Buhari\u00a0 cannot<br \/>\nwin the North Central States of Benue, Kogi, Plateau and Nasarawa.<\/p>\n<p>According to the source, the strategy is solely to reduce the votes in the<br \/>\nSouth South States of Rivers, Edo, Delta, Cross Rivers and Akwa Ibom<br \/>\nstates to even up and cushion the effect of an eventual defeat in the<br \/>\nNorth Central States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Buhari knows he cannot win the North Central States, so the strategy is<br \/>\nfor him to reduce the votes in the South South States so he can even up<br \/>\nhis loses in the North Central. The funds is specifically to give to all<br \/>\nthe identified Militant groups in the South South.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The source said Militants would be paid to snatch ballot boxes, destroy<br \/>\nballot papers, shoot sporadically at polling booths to intimidate and<br \/>\nscare voters in the South South states.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The task is simple. The militant groups who are being paid would mobilize<br \/>\nand head to polling booths, shoot, snatch ballot boxes, destroy all voting<br \/>\nmaterials and make sure voters feel insecure to cast votes. This, they<br \/>\nbelieve would reduce the amount of votes coming from that region,&#8221; said<br \/>\nthe source.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to reach the Amnesty office and the Presidency to confirm or deny<br \/>\nthe allegation proved abortive and none was willing to speak on the<br \/>\nmatter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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