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| Chief Ateke Tom |
Ateke has bowed to the wishes of his people to run for the coveted office of Governor of Rivers State, Nigeria. Ateke needs no introduction. As leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, he led a campaign for the emancipation of his people by the disruption of oil installations and operations and forcing the Federal Government of Nigeria to pay attention to the pain of his people. Ateke Tom and his people have since been pardoned and granted amnesty for all the crimes they committed against the state and the innocent blood they shed on many rivers and forests of Niger Delta. They have all also been paid billions of Naira in ongoing resettlement and compensation programmes by the FGN. Leaders like him have been awarded highly lucrative contracts to secure oil installations which they previously held hostage and sabotaged. Read full post after Cut.
