Group condemns B/Haram’s plan to shoot down Jonathan’s plane

WARRI- IJAW Peoples Development Initiative, IPDI, Thursday , criticized the attempt by suspected Islamic fundamentalist group, Boko Haram, to shoot down the plane of President Goodluck Jonathan during his two-day visit to Borno State, last week.

The group in a statement by the chairman of the its Board of Trustees, Mr. Cletus Itari, said the attempt called for concern in view of the raging demand for total amnesty for the sect by the Sultan of Sokoko despite the unprecedented killings and destruction carried out by the terrorist organization.

Its words, “It is undemocratic for the north to have planned Jonathan’s death and wants every meaningful person in the country to bemoan the foiled attack. The life of President Jonathan is very precious to Nigerians and Niger-Deltans and people should realize that such a wicked plan, if it had succeeded, could truncate the peaceful co-existence of Nigeria.”

IPDI also lambasted the Sultan of Sokoto for his “reckless representation of a terrorist ghost group”, adding, “He should resign from his ruler ship as Sultan of Sokoto and take up a job with the Boko Haram sect.”

According to the statement, “Sultan of Sokoto is playing a double standard game with the Presidency because ince Christians became the prime target of the sect, he had never shown care only to identify himself with a faceless group, we are not surprised as a bird of a feather flew together.”

The group also frowned at the control of 83 per cent of oil blocs by the northern elites, saying, “it is evil and immoral to have been ignoring national character in the sharring of the oil blocs by previous administrations.”

“We call for a revocation of all the oil blocs by the presidency and re-allocation of same with a consideration of the six geo-political zones in the country for the purpose of peace, equity, fair play, and justice in the country,