Nigeria: Delta avengers calling for referendum to split the country

The Niger Delta Avengers militant group that has been bombing oil installations in Nigeria’s oil-rich but ravaged region is calling for a referendum so that Nigerians can decide whether they want to continue with the current system of governance.

They asked President Buhari to learn from the lead of UK Prime Minister who called for referendum relating to whether or not United Kingdom should stay in the European union or not, a poll that the ‘leave’ proponents won by about 52%

‘‘President Buhari borrow a leaf from PM David Cameron, call for a referendum and let Nigerians decides like they did to vote you into Power,’‘ the group wrote in a tweet on Saturday night. 

An accompanying map in one of their tweets labeled ‘Flag and Map of the Future,’ split Nigeria into five main political blocs, the Northern ‘Arewa Republic,’ the middle ‘Niger Middle Belt’ and ‘Oduduwa Republic,’ ‘United Niger-Delta,’ and ‘Biafra Republic’ to the south.