"They attack and kill prominent individuals, ransacking homes up and down the coastal areas, including lately, Lagos and Ogun states" -Garba Shehu launches the propaganda for military invasion of Niger Delta

All Progress Congress Presidential Candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari in a chat with APC Campaign Spokesman, Mallam Shehu Garba and Senator Olurunmibe Mammora as General Buhari returned to Nigeria onboard British Airway flight 083 after weeks on medical trip the United Kingdom at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport in Abuja, March 6, 2015. (Photo Credit: Sunday Aghaeze)

Out of the blue, a group calling itself the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA spouts. They kill soldiers and policemen. They kidnap and kill oil company workers. Piracy on the high seas. They asked oil companies to stop operations and pack out of the Niger Delta region.

They blow up oil pipelines, power and other infrastructure. They attack and kill prominent individuals, ransacking homes up and down the coastal areas, including lately, Lagos and Ogun states.

We Plotted To Accuse NSA Dasuki Of Staging A Coup Against Buhari – Buhari aide Garba Shehu confesses

We Plotted To Accuse NSA Dasuki Of Staging A Coup Against Buhari – Buhari aide Garba Shehu confesses

President Muhammadu Buhari had a meeting with the APC security committee agreed that the party will run a story announcing that the National Security Adviser at that time, Mr. Sambo Dasuki, was staging a second coup d’etat against Muhammadu Buhari.

Garba Shehu or Buhari? Who is Nigeria's President-elect?

Garba Shehu or Buhari? Who is Nigeria's President-elect?

The first critical assignment undertaken by yet-to-be-sworn in Muhhammadu Buhari's administration was to place a ban on one of Nigeria's leading private television station, the Africa Independent Television (AIT). This was seen by experts as the first step to clamp down on press freedom and free speech. AIT ran several anti Buhari documentaries, which factually exposed all the atrocities committed by his military regime in the early 1980s. It is therefore believed that Buhari’s ban of AIT was as a result of this - vendatta. Buhari has a record of cracking down on the media, even jailing journalists during his days as military Head of State from 1984 to 1985.