By Udora Orizu The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has called on the Federal Government to declare the inflammatory statements credited to muslim Cleric, Sheik Gumi on the activities of the terrorists and bandits as hate speech. The statements include those inciting the terrorists against Christian soldiers and equating them with Niger Delta agitators. This is just as the Forum named Senator Emmanuel Essien as its National Chairman as successor to Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga (rtd) who died few months ago. A communique issued by the forum at the end of the meeting of its board of trustees and signed by elder stateman, Chief Edwin Clark and former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Victor Attah