Crusaders under the auspices of 21st Century Youths of Niger Delta and Agitators with Conscience, 21st CYNDAC, have come out to beg President Muhammadu Buhari to not succumb to harassment and distortion by Ijaw Youth Council, IYC to discontinue the ongoing forensic audit of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.

Coordinator of the group, Izon Ebi, recently revealed this via a statement, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, what the present leadership of the IYC is doing is nothing but a cheap blackmail, and it doesn’t represent the wishes and aspirations of the Niger Delta people.

He added that their agenda is to simply stop the conclusion of the forensic audit in order to set free the leaders that have looted and mismanaged N19 trillion meant for the development of the Niger Delta region.

His words, “Mr. President and Commander in Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria should not to succumb to the cheap blackmail and propaganda of the present leadership of the IYC because it does not represent the wishes and aspirations of the Niger Delta people.”

“Its agenda is to stop the conclusion of the forensic audit in order to set free the leaders that have looted and mismanaged N19 trillion meant for the development of the Niger Delta region.”

“IYC is not known for afflicting pains on innocent travelers and stopping government’s noble intentions for the Niger Delta region, 21st CYNDAC advises IYC to stop further ridiculing of the revered name of the IYC worldwide. We have more pressing issues than this show of shame in the 21st century. This show of shame must stop because it clearly shows that the guilty and those that feel they own NDDC are fighting back to stop the findings and conclusion of the forensic audit.”

“We are not going to allow it to happen because nobody is more Niger Deltan than the other. The game is up and we advise the security agents to rise up to the occasion and not to allow it to snowball into another crisis that will cause more problems for the government and the region because Niger Deltans and the state governors endorsed the forensic audit of NDDC.”

“What is happening presently does not represent the ideals of the founding fathers of the IYC because Ijaw means truth and must always stand with the truth. The present primitive actions and blatant lie of kidnapping and commercialization of the struggle is regrettable and unfortunate.”

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Muhammadu Buhari GCFR (born 17 December 1942) is a Nigerian politician currently serving as the President of Nigeria, in office since 2015. He is a retired major general in the Nigerian Army and previously served as the nation’s head of state from 31 December 1983 to 27 August 1985, after taking power in a military coup d’état. The term Buharism is ascribed to the Buhari military government.

He unsuccessfully ran for the office of president of Nigeria in the 2003, 2007, and 2011 general elections. In December 2014, he emerged as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the March 2015 general elections. Buhari won the election, defeating the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan. This marked the first time in the history of Nigeria that an incumbent president lost to an opposition candidate in a general election. He was sworn in on 29 May 2015. In February 2019, Buhari was re-elected President, defeating his closest rival Atiku Abubakar by over 3 million votes.

Buhari has stated that he takes responsibility for anything over which he presided during his military rule, and that he cannot change the past. He has described himself as a “converted democrat”.

Muhammadu Buhari was born to a Fulani family on 17 December 1942, in Daura, Katsina State, to his father Hardo Adamu, a Fulani chief, and mother Zulaihat. He is the twenty-third child of his father. Buhari was raised by his mother, after his father died when he was about four years old.