Fifth Columnists Move Against Jonathan

Fifth Columnists Move Against Jonathan, Recruit Fighters

JOINT Revolutionary Council (JRC), an insurgent network in the volatile Niger Delta, Nigeria's main oil and gas basin, has raised an alarm over an alleged plot by the enemies of Acting President Goodluck Jonathan, to distabilise the country.

JRC Spokesperson, Cynthia Whyte, claimed in an on-line statement on Thursday that the said trouble makers were already recruiting mersanaries to cause mayhem in the oil region.

According to her, the JRC was not of the distabilising forces. Their statement goes thus:

''We wish to inform and alert all men of goodwill of the attempt by an intensely dubious cabal to recruit young men from the Niger Delta to engage in acts that will destabilize the political status quo and question the ability of Goodluck Jonathan to act effectively as President of the Nigerian state.

''We are well informed that this cabal seeks to recruit high risk elements for the sabotage of key oil and gas infrastructures across the Niger Delta. Their intention is to create the impression that Acting President Goodluck Jonathan is incapable of managing the Niger Delta question and running the affairs of this contraption called Nigeria.

''We condemn this people and warn them to stay off the Niger Delta territory.
We believe that this cabal is made up of politically frustrated Northern elements in collaboration with failing politicians of South-South extraction.
We hereby declare that we cannot be used as pawns in a chessboard to fight against our own. Our struggle is a just one.''

ENDS

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