We disclaim the interview in the vanguard of monday july 23, 2007,
purportedly granted by Mend to one jide Ajani of the vanguard newspaper.
The vanguard in our opinion, has mostly been a tool of the nigerian government, propagating falsehood which it hopes will replace the truth.
Mend never sent a delegation to meet with Yar Adua, and will never do that. It is a simplistic assumption that the niger delta issues can be that easily resolved. All those clamouring for visits to abuja are simply
politicians pretending to be militants. They are totally irrelevant in the scheme of things and will shortly be proven to be so.
Mend, as we have constantly maintained, is representative of the interests of the entire people of the niger delta and not the ijaws of the delta alone. We will never permit our dream of freedom for the entire niger
delta be sabotaged by a few tribalistic, myopic, ijaw politicians masquerading as militants and negotiators.
The people of the niger delta need justice, not ministerial posts or states. We need our resources stolen from us for fifty years. This must be
returned immediately as that is the only way, true peace will ever return to the niger delta, and nigeria.