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Niger Delta militants invaded a police station on election day in Port Harcourt and killed seven police officers and razed the police station before escaping.
The ruthless militant leader, Ateke Tom from Okrika in Rivers State has claimed responsibility for the latest attack.
The Niger Delta militants have warned people in the region not to vote, because of their opposition to the ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that has failed to keep the promises of improving the living conditions of the deprived host communities of the multinational oil companies in the volatile region.
Thousands of expatriates have fled the Niger Delta since the escalation of violent attacks on oil installations and rampant kidnappings of foreign oil workers.
The ruling party had employed and armed the political thugs to rig the last elections in 2003. But when the PDP reneged on promises to increase their stakes in the revenue allocations and social welfare, the political thugs resorted to militancy to demand for the resource control of oil produced in their region.
Millions of Nigerian voters would be electing their State Legislators and Governors in the first poll today and next Saturday, they will elect the next president of Nigeria and their representatives to the National Assembly. But the elections are already jeopardized by litigations against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), political assassinations, violent riots at political rallies and insurgencies in the southern and northern regions of Nigeria
Posted April 14th, 2007 by MichaelChima
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hello what the did is ok because you can not go to there own state and damage it and let scuced ok what i have to said is fedarl goverment have give them what the need