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EX-militants leaders of the defunct Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), have called on new militant groups, the Niger Delta Avengers and the Red Egbesu Water Lion, to stop the attacks on oil and gas instal­lations and allow President Mohammad Buhari to fulfill his electoral promises to the region.

The ex-MEND leaders from the nine states of the Niger Delta, who re-grouped under a peace advocacy group known as the Leadership, Peace and Cultural Development Initia­tive (LPCDI) after a crucial meeting declared that the ac­tions of the renegade militant groups have become an unnec­essary distraction to the Buhari administration.