Don’t bank on MEND’s endorsement, Jonathan tells Buhari

President Goodluck Jonathan has told his opponent in the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari, not to be carried away by the purported endorsement by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), saying he has the backing of Niger Deltans to return to office.
His Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati in a statement, said the president was amused by the vituperations against him following MEND’s endorsement of Buhari, describing it as mischievous, baseless and deliberately styled to denigrate the good works of the president.
He said it was regrettable that rather than show remorse for the terrorist acts against his fatherland for which he was serving a term of imprisonment in South Africa, Henry Okah, had continued to pursue a pointless personal vendetta against President Jonathan who had been advancing and protecting the interests of the people of the Niger Delta which Okah and his group threatened with their misguided actions.
‎The statement read in part: “We have noted with amusement, the vituperations against President Goodluck Jonathan by the renegade faction of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) headed by the convicted terrorist, Henry Okah in a statement issued to endorse the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari.
“While we thank all people of the Niger Delta, including the former militants whom MEND claims to represent who have already disassociated themselves from the statement issued by the faceless Jomo Gbomo and reaffirmed their unflinching support for President Jonathan’s re-election, we will like to state that the latest assault on the president by Henry Okah and his stooges did not come as a surprise to us at all.”        
 SOURCE:SUN NEWS