Niger Delta: MEND Abort Crucial Meeting

•I was under pressure to convene meeting — Tompolo

•Jomo Gbomo MEND distances itself from purported gathering

•Bayelsa govt, Police, JTF not aware of assembly

•Ignore MEND, Itsekiri, Urhobo leaders urge Buhari

•Ijaw House quiet, no preparation for summit

By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, Niger Delta and  Sam Oyadongha

Tompolo

YENAGOA– LEADER of the defunct Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, aka Tompolo, explained, yesterday,  that he summoned a  meeting  of the militant group in  Yenagoa,  Bayelsa State, because of  the overpowering  pressure mounted on him and other MEND leaders by ex-agitators and other beneficiaries of the Amnesty Programme.  The meeting earlier scheduled to hold today has been put off.

Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, called for the postponement of the parley, saying he would meet with the ex-militants to discuss the burning issues affecting the ex-agitators.

A statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Daniel Iworiso-Markson, reads: “Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has called for the postponement of the proposed meeting of the leaders of ex-agitators in the Niger Delta, earlier scheduled for this Saturday, 25th of July, 2015 in Yenagoa by them. The governor will meet with them soon to discuss issues as they affect the ex-agitators and others issues of overall strategic interest of the region and the nation as a whole.”

The governor called for “the understanding and cooperation of all concerned.”

Informed sources, however, told Saturday Vanguard that due the tension generated by the meeting, some ex-agitators had already declared that they would not participate.

They, nonetheless, expressed their willingness to attend a meeting summoned by Governor Dickson soon to discuss issues as they affect the Ijaw nation, the region and the country.

I was under pressure to convene meeting – Tompolo

Tompolo confirmed there was apprehension in Ijaw land over the continued delay by the Federal Government in paying monthly stipends to the beneficiaries, adding that while some of them, (leaders) understood the reason for the noticeable delay apparently caused by the scrutiny of government agencies, including the Amnesty Office, majority of the beneficiaries did not see it in that light.

His words: “While a few see the delay in the payment of their monthly stipends in the light of the need for the current government to settle in properly, others see the delay as a template to stop the programme. The expulsion of some students (home and overseas) by their schools and training institutions particularly has heightened these fears.”

The ex-militant leader, who is the Ibe-Ebidouwei of Izon nation is, however, flabbergasted that a section of the media mischievously linked the meeting to the stoppage of  his pipeline surveillance contract, even though payment had not been made for the services rendered in the renewed contract, or termination of appointments.

Describing is it as highly provocative and despicable; he said he was considering calling off the meeting, if anything, to show that he had no bad intention and would want Niger Delta to remain peaceful under the President Muhammadu Buhari government.

Saturday Vanguard gathered that leaders across the region had called Tompolo, yesterday, advising him to cancel the meeting, as the intention was likely to be misconstrued.

However, the group of MEND, which refused to disband after Tompolo and others disbanded the militant group in 2009, yesterday, in a statement by Jomo Gbomo, distanced itself from the meeting.

Why I called meeting – Tompolo

Tompolo’s statement read: “I am compelled to clarify issues as they relate to the meeting of the leadership of ex-agitators under the platform of MEND and other organizations summoned at my instance.

“The nation would recall that in the build- up to the Amnesty offer of the late President, Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, there was hesitance on the part of most of Niger Delta agitators until God in His infinite mercy granted me wisdom to provide leadership.

“The nation will also recall that under the Amnesty programme as inherited by the immediate past president, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, relative peace was enjoyed even as security of lives and property was enhanced to an appreciable level. Also, oil production increased from 700 barrels per day to 2.5million barrels per day. Put simply, hitherto aggrieved Niger-Delta youths, who inadvertently became agitators, upon the acceptance of the Amnesty offer, refrained from armed agitation to face normal urban life,” he said.

He continued: “Nonetheless, while some of us understand to an extent, the apparent delay in the continued payment of the monthly stipend to the ex-agitators in view of the seeming scrutiny of government agencies, including the Amnesty Office by the current administration, same cannot be said of the majority of beneficiaries of the Amnesty programme.

“To this extent, some of us, particularly me and other leaders have been under intense pressure from ex-agitators, commanders, individuals, parents and guardians as well as communities who are beneficiaries of the Amnesty programme.

“While a few see the delay in the payment of their monthly stipends in the light of the need for the current government to settle in properly, others see the delay as a template to stop the programme. The expulsion of some students (home and overseas) by their schools and training institutions particularly has heightened these fears.

“Hence, I thought it wise that a meeting of the collegiate leadership of the platform under which we operated as agitators could be convened to appraise the situation and possibly, explore means to douse the tension that is growing among the disarmed youths whose stipends (training allowances and tuition fees) have been delayed for months.

“This becomes more compelling in view of the fact that as leaders of the platform that served as midwife to the Amnesty offer, we owe the nation a duty to play our roles in order to stem a relapse of the relative peace in the Niger Delta region,” he said.

Tompolo blasts media

Tompolo said it was unfortunate that a section of the Nigerian nation and the media chose  to toe the path of misinforming the public and right -thinking people on the purpose of the meeting.

He said they linked the meeting to “whatever decision the current government at the centre may have taken in relation to the stoppage of the pipeline surveillance contract, even though payment have not been made for the services rendered in the renewed contract, or termination of appointments. This is highly provocative and despicable.”

According to him, “The tension generated by the meeting is uncalled for, diversionary and mischievous as no evil is intended in whatever form.”

“We appreciate the pressures being mounted by leaders from the region, especially as some have expressed concern that the meeting could be misinterpreted to mean the resurgence of hostilities in the region,” he said, adding, “We say, it is not.”

He asserted: “However, we take into account the fact that having embraced peace and remained supportive of various governments at all levels, including the President  Muhammadu Buhari government, we are surprised that a meeting of ex-agitators could prop anxiety. Hence, we shall ensure our genuine intentions are reflected in our attitude towards peace, security and development of the region. Calling off today’s meeting can also be an option if need be, in order to strengthen our belief in a peaceful Niger Delta.”

Ignore MEND, Itsekiri, Urhobo leaders urge Buhari

Meanwhile, two Itsekiri and Urhobo leaders in Delta State, Chief Ayirimi Emami and Olorogun Egbo Jaro, yesterday, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to rebuff the attempt by some members of the splintered MEND, led byTompolo, to distract him from probing the Amnesty programme.

Chief Emami in a terse statement, said: “Some of us are against the meeting because it is uncalled for. For the last six years when Tompolo enjoyed juicy contracts from the Federal Government through NIMASA, pipeline surveillance, maritime security and other forms of undue favours, why didn’t he convene such a meeting? I must use this opportunity to stress once more that Niger Delta does not belong to one ethnic nationality.”

“Members of the fractured MEND have been granted amnesty long ago by the Federal Government and whatever the agenda of that meeting  should be disregarded by the Buhari administration, which has shown absolute focus. People like us are determined to give the Buhari administration total support.’’

National leader, Urhobo Nationality Council, UNC, Olorgoun Jaro Egbo, stated: “The Urhobo ethnic nationality of Niger Delta are seriously against the purported meeting of the MEND as it is self-serving, misconceived and likely to bring the peace we now enjoy into disarray.”

“We must strongly warn the so-called commanders of MEND that their properties in Urhobo land will be in serious jeopardy if they go ahead with the meeting. We fully support the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. The Urhobo will resist any attempt by MEND and their co-travellers if they resort to arms,” he added.

 

Niger Delta: MEND Abort Crucial Meeting

Pipeline contract: Pay ex-militants - Asari-Dokubo tells FG

Former Niger Delta militant leader, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, has called on the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to pay contractors of the oil pipeline surveillance project in the country.

Asari-Dokubo, who is one of the former Niger Delta agitators awarded pipeline surveillance contract by the Federal Government, told SUNDAY PUNCH that the three-month deal elapsed on June 15.

Asari Dokubo

He said that the ex-minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke, did not sign for the payment of the pipeline surveillance contract before she left office.

The pipeline protection project, which cut across Lagos, Ogun, Bayelsa, Ondo, Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta States, was executed from March 15, 2015 to June 15.

Asari-Dokubo urged President Buhari to pay the contractors their money if he was truly committed to the rule of law.

“Diezani (Allison-Madueke) did not sign payment for the contract before she left. All across the six states (Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Rivers, Delta and Bayelsa) where the contract was awarded none of us were paid; none of the companies were paid. The Federal Government should do what is needful by paying the money they owe. The same mandate that was given to Buhari to become President was the same mandate that was given to us in a legal and binding contract.

“If Buhari is law-abiding and if his government respects the rule of law, the contractual obligations will be followed. The contract was awarded to corporate entities by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. We did not go in as individuals and the corporate entities are regarded as individuals under the law. No contract was awarded to any specific individual,” he said.

The former militant added that he and other contractors would follow due process to get their money from the Federal Government.

He appealed to the President not to set a bad precedent where government will fail to pay contractors who had executed their contracts.

“The same way they give contract to people to lift oil; the same way they give Julius Berger contracts to build roads; the same way they give people contracts to build houses; that is the same way pipeline surveillance contracts were given to us. But they (FG) are not paying for the work done. It is against the law of the land. Paying us our contract money is the right thing he (Buhari) ought to do and for any reasonable human being,” Asari-Dokubo said.

Pipeline contract: Pay ex-militants - Asari-Dokubo tells FG

Yar’adua bribed ex-Niger Delta with amnesty to allow oil flow to North - Asari Dokubo

Leader of the Ijaw Youth Council, Mr. Asari Dokubo, has condemned the amnesty granted to the ex-Niger Delta militants by the late president, Umaru Yar’adua.

Asari Dokubo

According to him, this was a bribe to allow oil flow from the Niger Delta region to the North. He said that was the reason he rejected the offer.

Dokubo, who gave the clarification during the 2015 MASSOB day celebration, held in Owerri, Imo State, also faulted the national conference organised by the Federal Government, insisting that the exercise did not represent the views of the Niger Delta region that is yearning for a referendum.

“It only represented the views of the rest of the country. Let us be allowed to have a referendum. We have the right to hold a referendum on where we want to go,” he argued.

He described MASSOB and his group as partners in progress who are moving in the same direction to arrive at a common destination as one people and nation.

Dokubo, who faulted the last general elections in the country, decried the pace of growth and development of the nation over the years, noting that there should be massive infrastructural provision to stimulate the economy with conscious and unpolluted efforts to bring about industrial growth and job creation.

Meanwhile, members of MASSOB had a confrontation with the police at the Assumpta Roundabout while riding in convoy to the state capital for the celebration.

An eyewitness account had it that the police who had stationed their vehicles at the popular Control Post, Owerri, asked the MASSOB members to retreat but they refused and were teargassed by the police.

It was said that MASSOB members, who were numbered over 500, had hauled stones at the police, who shot in the air to scare them away.

Meanwhile, the Imo State Commissioner of Police, Austin Evbakvbokun, while confirming the incident, said that the police halted the movement of the MASSOB members to the state capital because they do not have a permit for such gathering.

He added that the group conducted itself in a disorderly manner, carrying insignias, which were not of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, thus necessitating the prompt action of his men to stop them.

Yar’adua bribed ex-Niger Delta with amnesty to allow oil flow to North - Asari Dokubo

If Buhari undermine us, we"ll be ready to die in prison or field of war - Dokubo-Asari

UGHELLI – FORMER Niger Delta warlord, Alhaji Dokubo Asari has described President Goodluck Jonathan’s tenure in office as a period of restrain on the people of the Niger Delta region.

Asari while speaking during the 2015 annual Major Issac Adaka Boro day organised by the Niger Delta People Salvation Front, NDPSF, at Ughelli, Delta State over the weekend, stated that Jonathan’s Presidency has been a mitigation and a restraining order on the advancement of the self determination struggle of the Niger Delta People.

Asari who is the founder of NDPSF, explained that though a new government is emerging on May 29, the restraining order posed by President Goodluck Jonathan, has been revoked.

He said: “A new government begins in Nigeria and a next phase of our struggle shall begin. We will watch, wait and determine our best way forward because the future is pregnant and Nigeria would never be the same again.”

Speaking on the incoming administration of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), Asari said: “Should Buhari undermine certain interest of the Niger Delta region through a systemic arrest, maiming of our comrades and seeing her as a conquered region, then it may be honourable for some of us to die in prison or in the field of war as nobody is afraid of him”.

 

If Buhari undermine us, we"ll be ready to die in prison or field of war - Dokubo-Asari

With Buhari as President, i may return to creek - Asari-Dokubo

A former Niger-Delta militant, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, says with the defeat of President Goodluck Jonathan, he and other militants might be forced to ‘return to creeks.’

Asari-Dokubo, who hails from the same state as Jonathan, said the voting pattern showed that the South-West and the North ganged up against the South-South and South-East geo-political zone.

The ex-militant said in a statement by his spokesperson, Rex Anighoro, that it was unfair that the minorities were being emasculated by the majority ethnic groups.

He said he feared that the government of the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, would be vicious.

Asari-Dokubo said, “The conditions that advanced the need to embrace the creeks have been sadly re-energised, it is clear that a vicious government who may maim and murder the voice of the so called minorities may have just been birthed.

“Indeed integration is nonexistent as regional gang ups and supremacy is symbolic with this victory.”

The ex-militant, who had in January said he and his colleagues would wreak havoc if Jonathan lost, praised the President for being a true statesman.

He said it was the struggle of the militants that led to the Jonathan presidency.

Asari-Dokubo said since the South-South had lost the presidency, ex-militants would meet to decide the next line of action.

He said, “While President Jonathan enjoys his moments and basks in the euphoria of a now world renowned statesman having congratulated Muhammadu Buhari, we must quickly be reminded that our struggle was never about Jonathan or about the presidency.

“President Jonathan was a beneficiary of our struggle, our sweat and blood that many bled and died for, he was never in the struggle and he can never wish away our collective march forward for statesmanship.

“Yes indeed to an extent he was a mitigating factor in self determination pursuit as we went on sabbatical, this mitigation he seem to have willingly repudiated. The days coming will be critical, we shall study all the conditions and consult widely before determining the way going forward for our collective existence and survival as a people. The days coming shall either drive the quest of integration or further separate us.”

With Buhari as President, i may return to creek - Asari-Dokubo

Don’t threaten Danjuma, ACF warns Tompolo, Dokubo

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The northern socio-political organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum, has warned Niger Delta ex-militants not to threaten a former Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (retd.).

Tompolo

The northern group said neither Danjuma nor any citizen of the country for that matter should be threatened with attacks by the ex-militants, who have been threatening fire and brimstone should President Goodluck Jonathan loses the February 14 presidential poll.

The ex-militants had threatened to attack Danjuma’s business interest in the Niger Delta for daring to ask that security agencies should arrest leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Mujahid Dokubo-Asari;and other ex-militants.

Dokubo-Asari, Victor Ben Ebikabowei a.k.a Boy Loaf;   Government Ekpudomenowei, a.k.a Tompolo and other militants had, during a meeting at the Bayelse State Government House, vowed to unleash violence on Nigerians if Jonathan failed in his re-election bid.

They said any attempt to unseat the President would be seen as a direct affront to the Ijaw nation.

The ACF said it viewed the threat by the ex-militants as not only a direct affront on Danjuma but on the President Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government.

National Publicity Secretary of the ACF, Muhammadu Ibrahim, in a statement in Kaduna on Monday, said, “ACF and indeed all Nigerians hold Gen T.Y. Danjuma, former Chief of Army Staff and Defence Minister in high esteem, as a revered patriot, elder statesman and a philanthropist of repute who fought for the unity of Nigeria and has continued to play this fatherly role even in his old age.

“ACF will therefore not accept any threat to his person or business assets or to any law-abiding citizen by any group or individuals in the name of militancy.”

The northern body therefore asked security operatives to take urgent steps to avert what it described as “ugly consequences” of war threats by the ex-militants.

Danjuma had penultimate Wednesday asked the Federal Government to as a matter of urgency arrest the Niger Delta ex-militants who threatened war in the country if Nigerians failed to re-elect Jonathan.

Danjuma spoke at the inauguration of Kwakwasiya City in Kano.

Danjuma

He had said, “You should arrest Dokubo-Asari, Tompolo, Boyloaf and other Niger Delta militants for making reckless statements, which in any way does not mean keeping Nigeria as one entity and creating war situation.

“Those were reckless statements coming from irresponsible individuals; they should be condemned and be arrested immediately.”

Neither President Jonathan nor the Federal Government has reacted to the threat by the former militants.

The ACF warned that nothing must tamper with the business empire of Danjuma because there was nothing wrong with his call for the arrest of ex-militants that had been threatening the peace of the entire country.

The ACF reminded the ex-militants that the President was not elected by Nigerians in 2011 based on threat or intimidation from any section of the country.

It stressed, “ACF wishes to remind the Niger Delta militants that President Jonathan did not ascend to his present position through threats and intimidation, but rather through democratic means of canvassing for votes without any form of molestation throughout the length and breadth of Nigeria in 2011.

“The same process the President and other candidates vying for the office shall go through to emerge as Nigeria’s President in 2015 and not through intimidation, threats and ultimatum.

“ACF therefore views such threats and intimidation by the ex-militants as an affront not only to Gen. Danjuma but an attack on a democratically elected Federal Government of Nigeria, over which President Jonathan presides.

“It is also an open challenge to the nation’s security agencies, especially the Nigeria Police Force, the Department of State Security and even the Nigerian military that are responsible for maintaining law and order and any form of internal and external aggression against Nigeria.

“ACF hereby calls upon the Federal Government to urgently take necessary steps and contain this emerging threat to national security by Niger Delta ex- militants to avert any ugly consequences.”

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2015 Goodluck Jonathan will win, in whatever way – Asari

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By Davies Iheamnachor

PORT HARCOURT – Alhaji Asari Dokubo, the leader of the Niger Delta People’s Salvation and Volunteer Front (NDSVF), who is also the founder of King Amachree African University, Republic of Benin, has said President Goodluck Jonathan, the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2015 Presidential election, has already won.

Dokubo wants seven “dissident” governors to renounce their membership of PDP.

Asari who spoke at the burial ceremony of Late Princess Preba Abigail Prince Ekineh, Asari’s grandmother organized by the NDSVF, at Buguma in Asari Toru Local Government Area, said it is not possible for the incumbent president who is also from the Niger Delta region to lose the election that returns him for the second term in office.

He said the incumbent president must win the election adding that the election is a walk over. Asari who said he does not know how it will be done maintained that measures have been put in place for the success of the election in favour of the president.

He also said that there is a high level of injustice playing out in Rivers state politics, adding that the political power in the state is supposed to be rotating among the different ethnic nationalities that make up the state. He said power should not be static on one place alone; thereby advocated that power should be shifted to the Ogoni ethnic nationality.

Asari said: “2015 Goodluck Jonathan will win, in whatever way they want him he will win. I am not afraid of anybody. My confidence is that he has already won, but in River state I don’t know because there is injustice in Rivers state.”

“The injustice in Rivers state is that one set of People cannot rule. Rivers state is a multiethnic state and all the ethnic nationalities must have access to government. So whoever is encouraging this perfidy does not mean well for the people because it will explode one day. The only way out is for justice to be done in the state and that means an Ogoni candidate should be feed in all the political parties.”

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Explain Asari Dokubo’s role in $9.3m cash-for-arms scandal, APC tells FG

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to explain to Nigerians what Mujaheed Asari Dokubo, was doing on the plane that illegally ferried US$9.3 million to South Africa, where Asari Dokubo, another Nigerian and an Israeli were arrested, according to a published report.

Lanseria Airport

In a statement issued in Abuja,Wednesday,by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said since the federal government has taken ownership of the funds by saying the National Security Adviser (NSA) issued the end-user certificate for the arms purchase, it stands to reason that the same government will know the involvement of all those aboard the plane.

It said, therefore, that the federal government has a lot of questions to answer on the whole deal, including whether Asari Dokubo is the contractor or the end user, who he was procuring arms for and for what purpose.

APC said the questions become pertinent because even the NSA, who issued the end-user agreement for the purchase, does not and cannot purchase arms for any of the armed services. The Service Chiefs have separate budgets from the NSA for arms purchase.

”Under our Constitution, the NSA is an adviser and has no executive powers to deploy troops from any of the services or purchase arms for them. That the arms purported to be purchased from South Africa were ordered from the office of the NSA is nothing but a mere fabrication, and raises serious questions about the motive for the purchase.

”Nigerians will therefore like to know on whose behalf Asari Dokubo was purchasing arms. This is very crucial because Asari Dokubo has been threatening that Nigeria will not know peace if his benefactor, President Jonathan, is not re-elected. Therefore, Nigerians will like to know whether he has started stockpiling arms to make his threat a reality, since elections are due in a few months’ time.

”If these arms are meant to fight insurgency, as the government has claimed, what is Asari Dokubo’s business purchasing arms for the Nigerian military, if indeed they were for the military? Does it not occur to the Nigerian government that this man who once took arms against the state may not have jettisoned his sinister plan against the same state? Which country will ever allow a man who once carried arms against the state to now be purchasing arms for the same state? Even if it is true that he is purchasing the arms for the state, what prevents him from also using the opportunity to purchase arms for his own sinister motive? Could this be why Asari Dokubo has been talking publicly and confidently, without official censure, that President Jonathan must be re-elected or Nigeria will not know peace again?” the party queried.

”…on Tuesday, we again asked President Jonathan to come clean on the US$9.3 million and US$5.7 million deals. We also asked him to tell Nigerians the identity of the two Nigerians who were on the plane that illegally ferried money to South Africa. Now that the Nigerians are known, and they are the President’s men, the story has taken a new dimension,” it said.

APC said since those who claim to be fighting for Nigeria’s unity may actually be the ones working against it, since those who lay claim to patriotism may actually be any but patriotic, it is more urgent now, than ever, for the National Assembly to take these cash-for-arms deals seriously, instead of dismissing the concerns of Nigerians on the basis of some rules as the House of Representatives has glibly done.

The party commended the media for keeping the story alive and for working hard to unearth the identity of the Nigerians aboard the ill-fated plane that illegally flew money into another country in violation of that country’s laws and all known tenets of decency.

It called on the media, in pursuance of its constitutional role of a watchdog, not to relent in exposing the circumstances surrounding the cash-for-arms deals, which have seriously embarrassed Nigeria in the comity of nations and which have the potential to threaten Nigeria’s unity, going by the latest revelations.

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"You masterminded your own attack" - Dokubo-Asari tells Buhari

Militant leader, Dokubo-Asari, who is also the leader of Niger Delta Peoples Salvation Force, NDPSF, yesterday, exploded, saying Buhari masterminded the attack on himself.

He lashed out at the former head of state, saying he plotted to kill many innocent Nigerians in the explosion.

The former President of Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, of the Niger Delta region, who spoke to journalists in Abuja, said Buhari and his group would fail in their conspiracy and desperation to take over power from President Goodluck Jonathan.

Claiming he knew the erstwhile Nigerian leader so well, the former militant leader said Buhari was not known to be driven in a bullet-proof car prior to the incident, alleging that the use of an armoured jeep in his motorcade started recently which confirmed his stand.

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Asari-Dokubo describes new Emir, Sanusi as a dog

By Ehi Ekhator, Naija Center News

Ex- Niger Delta militant and leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF) Mujahid Asari Dokubo revealed to his fans how he sees the new Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, describing him as a dog.

He posted a picture on his Facebook page with a caption “This is how i see Sanusi Lamido Sanusi”

The picture was a dog dressed like an Emir, completely in white. Asari asked, ”So a dog can become an Emir? Congratulations Rabiu Kwankwaso.”

See photo below

Asari who didn’t stop at his Facebook page, took to his twitter handled. While he congratulated the All Progressives Congress, APC, on their new Emir, he said he was wondering if the late Emir died a natural death, adding that APC people are very desperate.

APC congratulations on your new Emir,Emir of kano/APC ..
These APC peeps are so desperate I doubt if the emir had this rest naturally!

Asari-Dokubo is one of the many forces supporting President Goodluck Jonathan to run for a second term. He has threatened mayhem if Jonathan failed to secure a second term ticket in the 2015 presidential election.

Asari is one of those who believes that Sanusi Lamido, the new Emir of Kano could have a hand in the current insurgency in the country.

He has also challenged the Governor of Borno State, Kasim Shettima, accusing him of orchestrating the kidnap of the Chibok Girls. Asari has been rallying against the believe that the more than 200 girls who were kidnapped from their hostels on February 14th is real. The Ex militant had earlier called on Shettima to bring back the girls, saying it was a plan to drag the name of the President to the mud.

 

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Clark Asks FG To Revoke Asari-Dokubo, Tompolo"s Contracts

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja

A prominent Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark on Tuesday asked the Federal Government to revoke the multi-billion naira pipeline and maritime protection contracts awarded to two former leaders of the Niger Delta militants, Government Ekpemukpolo (Tompolo) and Asari Dokubo.

Dokubo wants seven “dissident” governors to renounce their membership of PDP.

The Ijaw leader, who said this while contributing to a debate on the report of the National Conference Committee on Public Finance and Revenue, said government should revoke the contracts because it has not contributed to reducing oil theft as desired by government.

“I want to advise the government to withdraw the contracts awarded to Tomplolo and Asari Dokubo because they have failed to stop oil thefts in the country. Instead, youths from areas where oil facilities are located should be given the job,” said Clark.

The Octogenarian said the militants were sabotaging the efforts of government to stop oil theft because they want to retain their pipeline contracts.

While noting that oil theft has increased since the pipeline protection and maritime contracts were awarded to the two former Niger Delta warlords, Clark noted that youths of the community where there are oil assets will do better job of protecting them.

“If we allow youths from host communities to protect oil installations, it will be difficult for anybody to break the pipeline and steal our oil,” Clark added.

Other delegates who contributed to the report condemned the lack of transparency in the management of Nigeria’s oil revenue by the Federal Government and the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.

Delegates were sharply divided over the recommendation of the Committee that the Federal Government should stop subsidising petrol yesterday.

In his own contribution to the debate, Professor Femi Mimiko, a delegate from Ondo State, asked the Federal Government to remove fuel subsidy.

He added that savings made from the stoppage of fuel subsidy can be deployed for other uses that will be more beneficial to the poor.

“On this, I find it difficult to understand the argument of those who want subsidy to be sustained. It is evident that fuel subsidy in this country is a huge infrastructure of corruption.

“I then wonder why those who in one breadth decry corruption would at another, defend or argue for the retention of a clear infrastructure of corruption.

“As things are now, it is evident that the fuel subsidy regime has failed. It does not favour the poor; constraints development of our oil refining capacity; and promotes corruption. It should be removed and the savings put on the proposed social security regime that one of the Committees has recommended,” said Mimiko.

“Such can also be deployed to support free education  at both primary and secondary levels; and a scholarship fund for students of tertiary educational institutions who cannot afford to pay their way through school, Mimiko, Ondo Delegate and Vice Chancellor of Ondo State University, Akingba-Akoko said of the uses which the funds currently being used to pay subsidy on petroleum products can be deployed to.

Clark Asks FG To Revoke Asari-Dokubo, Tompolo"s Contracts

Be Prepared For War With North, Asari beats war drum to the south

Controversial leader and founder of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, NDPVF, has charged the people of the South-South region to prepare for war, even as he said, the ongoing onslaught by Boko Haram is designed to unleash terror on the people of the region.

Dokubo 

Asari called on the different ethnic nationalities in the region to unite to fight the invasion of the northern imperialists.

The Niger Delta youth leader, who is noted for his controversial posture on national issues, spoke at the 10th annual Major Isaac Adaka Boro Public Lecture in Ughelli, Delta State, saying that the people of the region must act fast to foil any attempt to be enslaved.

According to him, the growing onslaught of the Boko Haram was a war rehearsal of the ‘Fulani feudalist’ against the region which produced the country’s economy mainstay.

He said: “What Boko Haram is doing is military exercise, its war rehearsals in the north, they are coming down. Sorry for Urhobo , sorry for Benin , sorry for Esan land , sorry for Isoko land, na here dem go pass come meet Ijaw people.

Ijaws alone cannot fight this battle, we are not strong enough to fight this battle, we need the collective strength of every one of us, and this is the last battle.

“Goodluck no get mouth to say he won’t contest the next election. I will be 50 years on the first of June, I have twenty children and all my children from the age of ten can shoot gun, all my children are trained in martial arts, they can disable an able man. We must prepare for it, now I have gone back to the village because a war is coming, the time of ‘no victor, no vanquish is gone’, this time it is ‘no retreat, no surrender’.” (National Mirror)

Be Prepared For War With North, Asari beats war drum to the south

Abducted girls: Asari Dokubo is a jester - Shettima replies

By Ehi Ekhator

The executive governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima has said that he would not trade words with a joker like the ex-Niger Delta Militant, Asari-Dokubo who said that the governor knows where the abducted girls are.

Shettima spoke through his spokesman, Isa Gusau yesterday.

Shettima

The spokesperson responding to some media report quoting Dokubo  alleged accusation on the person of Shettima and his party that the abducted girls in Chibok  were staged, and what he referred to as a political scam to scandalise the name of President Goodluck Jonathan ahead of 2015 elections.

Gusau said“Governor Shettima is too serious minded to reply Asari Dokubo who is just a joker as most Nigerians regard him. As a onetime  journalist covering the Niger Delta I had come in direct contact with ‎Asari when he organised a rally in support of late Gaddafi in Port Harcourt and also when he organised the 2011/2012 Isaac Boro lecture in Port Harcourt which he kept interrupting, taking over the microphone from peole like respected lawyers like Festus Keyamo, intermittently speaking without protocol and without shame like a child.

“He is just a joke,no reasonable Nigerian takes him serious. He was reported saying Chibok abduction was a sham, I won’t be surprised if by next week the same Asari Dokubo leads another rally to counter the one he just held. Last year, Asari was reported speaking against Presidency, then he changed tune now we don’t know what happened but that is how he is, he uses the media for personal interest and some sort of blackmail.

Dokubo

“He wants to be regarded as a hero but I tell you that no one sees him as such in thhe Niger Delta that I had covered.

“He is trying to force unwilling public to see him different from who he is but like a say goes, ‘you can fool some people all the time, you can fool all the people sometime but you cannot fool all the people all the time’. Asari dubiously took advantage of Isaac Boro event which attracts participants to make say what he said so that the procession would seem like a support bases for his isolated opinion.

“I saw some pictures of some girls in one house displaying some placards, from the faces, I think he probably assembled some of his immediate and extended family members and gave them placards.

“One person wrote on all the cards, the same writing, all of which look like a sort of Mickey Mouse scene in cartoon series.

“How can Governor Shettima reply a jester, how can he respond to such a play by Asari that falls far below the standard of Nollywood when he is busy working very hard with all relevant bodies finding ways on how to secure the freedom of his and Borno’s precious daughters in captivity?.

Gasau added that Asari Dokubo is one of the negative influence creating bad impression on the Presidency, adding that  “earlier the Presidency distances itself from Asari, the quicker his childish views don’t do further damage to those he tries to please”.

The abduction of the students of Chibok has attracted a lot of criticism on the Presidency and Dokubo has stood his ground that the abduction was orchestrated by the governor of Borno State and his political party, to discredit the Presidency in order to stop him from re-contesting.

Dokubo stressed that, no girls are missing but a complete scam, accusing the governor of knowing the whereabouts of the girls shown on the video by the leader of Boko Haram, Shekau.

Abducted girls: Asari Dokubo is a jester - Shettima replies

Nothing anyone can do to stop President Jonathan"s re-election - Dokubo"s wife

*Aboki’s from desert fighting for oil in Niger Delta

By Ehi Ekhator

The wife of the former Niger Delta militant, Hajia Mujahidat Daba Dokubo-Asari has sound a serious warning to those sponsoring the insurgents, saying that there is nothing they can do to stop the President from re-contesting and winning the 2015 election.

Dokubo 

Asari-Dokubo’s wife expressed disappointment that stranger from desert are fighting for oil in the Niger Delta region. She noted that the insurgents and several attacks in the country escalated because of the oil in the Niger Delta.

She warned those she referred to as “Aboki” to leave the Niger Delta’s oil and President Jonathan alone.

She said “Let me sound a note of warning to the sponsors of boko haram no amount of protest or name calling will stop the president from contesting and wining the 2015 presidential election they are conspiring to kill the best president Nigeria has ever had because of the oil in his back yard.

“What a country! strangers who travelled all the way from the desert are claiming ownership of the oil in the south south .

“Whether we accept the truth or not all this boko haram issues escalated because of the oil in the niger delta, Aboki and her political friends pls leave niger delta oil and, GEJ alone. Go and mine your untapped minerals,and groundnut pyramid

Meanwhile, Asari-Dokubo has continued his campaign of #nochildismissing, adding that the abduction is a play written by the executive governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima.

Nothing anyone can do to stop President Jonathan"s re-election - Dokubo"s wife

‘Boko VIideo My Foot’: Asari-Dokubo Insists No Girls Abducted, Steps Up Anti-Chibok Campaign.

Former Niger Delta militant, Alhaji Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, this morning dismissed yesterday’s Boko Haram video showing over a hundred of the over 200 girls abducted April 14 from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State.

Dokubo continued to insist that the entire saga is a scam. Stepping up his campaign to counter the global ‪#‎BringBackTheGirls‬ campaign, the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteers Force (NDPVF) Leader has been posting series of photos online showing him and others engaging in the‪#‎NoGirlsareMissing‬ counter campaign. He has also been uploading arguments aimed to convince people that the Chibok abduction story is a scam. Below are three of such messages uploaded on Facebook by Dokubo, a kinsman of President Goodluck Jonathan:

“If you don’t know the girls abducted, tell me how you can tell they are the ones ‪#‎broughtBack‬? Can we use our brain instead of allowing others use them? Until I have a full copy of the photos and names of the missing girls so I can compare it to the ones foreign medias will send to our copycat Nigerian medias, #NoGirlsareMissing

“PASS THE MESSAGE….NO GIRLS ARE MISSING….CHIBOK IS A SCAM”

“There was no abduction, cant you guys think! why can’t the parents come out and fight or even mak a speech. I will b d last to believe this lies. Nigeria is an Olodo nation and that is y they always twist ur heads and push everyone around.”

“It’s clear Shettima knows more than what he’s saying. How can a sensible and reasnable governor (he claims to be well educated). (Eemi ti o kawe mi o je wuwa apoda be). wave aside advise from WAEC to move the examination to a safer place, without making adequate security for the school. If he has agreed to WAEC we wont be in these situations. It’s a grand conspiracy. it beats any sense of reasoning, the governor will put only two security personel where WAEC officials has express their reservation and some want us to beleive GEJ is resposible.

Shettima is to be blame. Truth will surely comes out. (Bi’ro ba lo logun odun….)

“PASS THE MESSAGE….NO GIRLS ARE MISSING….CHIBOK IS A SCAM”.

‘Boko VIideo My Foot’: Asari-Dokubo Insists No Girls Abducted, Steps Up Anti-Chibok Campaign.

No threat will stop Jonathan second term - Asari-Dokubo

The former militant leader and founder of Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Alhaji Asari-Dokubo has sound a warning saying that no amount of pressure and threat will stop President Goodluck Jonathan from running in 2015 general election.

Dokubo wants seven “dissident” governors to renounce their membership of PDP.

Asari-Dokubo who disclosed this in Port Harcourt, at a program organized by Niger Delta Development Commission, NNDC said that Boko Haram attacks were part of the strategy employed to stop President Jonathan from running for a second term.

He added that Niger Delta Development Commission had come to stay and no government would dare scrap it.

He said .“They have started oo! The leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau said in a video that we should not play with them. He said, Goodluck, I am coming for you. Niger Delta, we are coming for you.

Are we going to allow them to shoot the guns and throw the bombs? That is when we will dance?” . .   “2015 is more than do or die. It is our very survival that is being challenged, and we must tell them.

You are a man and I am a man, we are going to meet at the battlefield. Be prepared, be watchful. The enemies should not be allowed”.

“In this region, there will be only one vote. The people from the North have said that they should scrap the NDDC, that they should reduce the 13 per cent derivation to five per cent, and that nobody owns oil”.  “We have to gather again and tell them (North) that they cannot dare it.

The North cannot scrap the NDDC. The North cannot reduce the 13 per cent derivation to five per cent. If they try it now, they will see. It is because our brother is the president that is why  we are hanging on peacefully”. He further charged political office holders in the region to create empowerment programmes for youths in the area, stressing that they should take steps to reduce poverty in the region.

“If we beg to pay our rents and our children’s school fees, then what is the meaning of life? What is the meaning of life if I stand at the gate of NDDC and beg anybody that comes in and goes out with money? Why would we allow our people to become beggars in the midst of plenty?” “Whether you do the right thing or not, we will fight until victory comes. You (the managing director of NDDC) never sent us. Nobody sent us. When we decided to fight, we did not know you. You never sponsored us. We fought because we believe that suffering will end. But if you, the beneficiaries of our blood, sweat and pains, will treat us as small children, then, what have we gained in this struggle?”

“Let us make it very clear that if we did not fight, Goodluck Jonathan would not have been president of this country. It is because we fought that he became president. It is insulting to give us water hyacinth contract. I have the capacity to construct the road to Bonny. Today, vehicles have started going to Nembe, and that is a miracle”.  Speaking at the event , Managing director of the NDDC, Bassey Dan-Abia, said the new management of the NDDC was working to tackle challenges of poverty in the region.

 

No threat will stop Jonathan second term - Asari-Dokubo

Oh Allah, punish El-rufai, others with incurable sickness - Asari-Dokubo curses

By Ehi Ekhator

The former leader of the Niger Delta militant, Alhaji Mujahid Asari-Dokubo has denied the allegation that he is a member of the Boko Haram sect, adding that he value lives and would not be  a part of those taking innocent lives.

Dokubo wants seven “dissident” governors to renounce their membership of PDP.

To convince Nigerians further, he sworn for himself, saying may God punish me if he was one of those behind the activities of the sect

Asari-Dokubo who seems really angry took to his facebook page, asking God to visit his accusers and sponsors of the sect with incurable diseases.

According to his post, he said “May the wrath and destruction of Allah be upon me and my twenty children if I, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari knows anything about the operations of the evil organization, Boko Haram or carry out any attack on her behalf.

“If I don’t know anything about the operations and attacks of this evil organization (Boko Haram) and this Munafiq Ahmed Mahmud Abubakar Gumi falsely associate my name with the evil organization (Boko Haram), her operations and attacks…Oh Allah do justice to me…clear me of these false accusations and association.

“Oh Allah visit this Munafiq Ahmed Mahmud Abubakar Gumi, his supporters, helpers, collaborators and associates with the most sever of your curses, wrath, destruction and punishment….

“Oh Allah visit him with madness, blindness, been crippled in both legs and hands, leprosy, hepatitis B, HIV-AIDS, Ebola virus, Lassa fever, diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer and other most terrible diseases without mitigation and cure.

“Let him Ahmed Mahmud Abubakar Gumi suffer all these in this world, in the grave and the disgrace of the day of judgment except he repents publicly on to you Oh Allah and clears me of these evil accusations and association with the evil organization Boko Haram.

He called on Allah to visit his anger on some Northern elders including the Former FCT Minister, Mallam El-Rufai.

The statement read: “Oh Allah visit your wrath and destruction on the following persons Nasir el rufai, Murtala Hamman-Yero Nyako, Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso,Junaid Muhammad, Ango Abdullahi, Lawal Kaita, Farouk Adamu Aliyu, Aliyu U. Tilde, Kashim Shettima,….their supporters, helpers, collaborators and associates….If any of these persons have in any way contacted the evil organization(Boko Haram) to seek for their protection from attack,….give them cash in exchange for peace from attack,…fund their attacks to heat up the polity against the government of Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan to malign him in their locality or internationally.

“Oh Allah expose them….disgrace them…punish them with the worst of your wrath if they had in any way contributed to the activities of Boko Haram.

“I know Oh Allah, that you are The Lord of justice and the avenger of the innocent…hear my cry of innocence and do not let them escape your wrath and justice…..Amin!”

Oh Allah, punish El-rufai, others with incurable sickness - Asari-Dokubo curses

You Can’t Make Wike Rivers Governor - Asari Dokubo dares Patience Jonathan

The next governor of Rivers State will not be determined by First Lady Patience Jonathan, according to leader of outlawed Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force Alhaji Mujahedeen Asari Dokubo.

Dokubo 

An attempt to make supervising minister of education Mr Nyesom Wike the next governor of the state, Dokubo warned, would not only affect the political fortune of President Goodluck Jonathan but also the chances of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state.

He said the plan by the first lady to impose Wike on the people was morally wrong in the light of the dominance of the political landscape of the state by the Ikwerre group, to which Wike belongs, in the past 16 years.

“To make Wike a governor in Rivers State in 2015 is not morally right. All the fellows endorsing him for whatever reason should know that it will injure PDP, it will injure Goodluck Jonathan. If Goodluck’s name is brought into it, that he is in support of the perpetuation of an Ikwerre hegemony in Rivers State, which is not right by population, which is not right under any calculation,  it will injure him and PDP,” Dokubo stated in an exclusive interview with LEADERSHIP friday yesterday.

Mrs Jonathan had ignited a controversy over the governorship ticket of the PDP in the next election in Rivers State on Tuesday when she said Wike enjoyed her backing in his gubernatorial ambition.

The first lady, in a statement issued in a reaction to a report that she had dumped Wike for a candidate from the riverside area of the state, preferably one from her Okirika stock, in the countdown to 2015, said she was solidly behind the minister in his bid to occupy the Brick House, Port Harcourt.

She said, in a statement issued by her media aide, Mr Ayo Adewuyi: “In the case of Rivers State, the First Lady wishes to state categorically that the Supervising Minister of Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, is the leader of PDP in Rivers State and he enjoys the followership of the people of the State. The First Lady is solidly behind Chief Wike.

“The people of Rivers State are also solidly behind Chief Wike and are prepared to follow him. It is therefore mischievous to insinuate that Mrs Jonathan is working to ensure that the governorship candidate comes from one of the riverine areas of Rivers State which may not be where the people are going.

“It is also imperative to state that the First Lady is always with the people and will continue to go with the wish and expectations of the people. Mrs Jonathan has not withdrawn her support for Chief Wike at any time and will always work for the interest and the good of Rivers people. As far as the First Lady is concerned, there is NO SHAKING in Rivers State.”

In yesterday’s interview, Dokubo insisted that Wike could not become the next governor of the state in view of the interests of the three ethnic clusters in the state.

He said an Ikwerre man had no business in Rivers Government House in 2015, adding that it would amount to political suicide for PDP to field Wike in the next election.

Dokubo said the Ogoni should be supported to produce the next governor in the interest of justice and fair play, adding that it is only the Ogoni cluster that has not produced the governor of the state.

“As far as we all know, there are three ethnic clusters in Rivers State: the Ijaws, the Igbos (Ikwerre is part of the Igbo cluster) and the Ogonis. After Bayelsa was excised from Rivers State, the Igbos have ruled for many years. Odili was an Idoni Igbo; he ruled for eight years. Omehia/Amaechi, who are also Ikwerres, by 2015 would have ruled for more than eight years, making over 16 years,” he explained.

Insisting that it is impossible for an Ikwerre man to emerge as successor of the incumbent governor Rotimi Amaechi, he said: “It is morally wrong for any anybody to say that Igbo cluster should produce the next governor in 2015.  I am an Igbo man also, by virtue of my origin, and so I am not against the Ikwerre people or against the Igbo. I repeat, I am an Igbo man; I can narrow it down: I have Ikwerre blood flowing in my veins.

“Having said that, the next cluster are the Ijaws, made up of the Kalabaris, the Obolo and Ibani people, the Wakrike; Okirika is just one town in Wakrike, Ukoro and others. These people have produced a governor. In terms of local government spread, they are in 11 local government areas out of the 23 local government areas; the Igbos are spread in eight and the Ogonis in four local government areas.

“In terms of population, when you remove the cosmopolitan population of Port Harcourt and Obiakpor, which is about 80 per cent of the population, is non-indigenous of those local governments. That is old non-Rivers indigenes and Rivers indigenes, who are not indigenes of Port Harcourt and Obiakpor local governments. If you remove those populations, the Ijaws are the majority as a single block.

“When you look at that, for somebody to say another Ikwerre man should become governor is wrong. Yes, constitutionally, he has a right to aspire, everybody is free to aspire, but it is not moral, it is not right. Something can be legally right but it might not be morally right.”

Making a case for the Ogoni, Dokubo said the age-long domination and oppression of the Ogoni people must end in 2015.

According to him, it would be unjust and unfair to continue to exclude the Ogoni in the scheming for the highest political office in the state. The Ogonis are the only people who have never produced governor because the whole Bayelsa that left were Ijaw people, he stated.

“So if we are saying there should be justice in Rivers State… if we are crying against domination by others, we should not also oppress other people. The people that morally should be allowed to produce the next governor of Rivers State is the Ogoni cluster made up of the Ogonis proper and the Eleme people.”

Dokubo expressed surprise that Patience Jonathan feigned ignorance of the homogenous nature and political reality in the state by openly identifying with the minister to clinch the top job in the state in 2015.

“The first lady need not to be told that it is morally and politically wrong for her to support another Ikwerre man by 2015, after the Igbo bloc would have spent over 16 years. She has every right to support who she wants but that must be done in a morally and politically correct direction and manner.”

Debunking the claim of his Ijaw kinsmen to the coveted seat in 2015, he said: “The arguments of the Ijaws are weaker. That an Ijaw governor should come in 2015 is weaker because Ada George and Melford Okilo have been elected governor; they can say it was old Rivers State — even in old Rivers State, the Ogonis should be in the right position to contest for the governorship. Yes, I will prefer an Ijaw man to become governor any day, anytime but when you are fighting oppression, you should fight it anywhere you see it. When you fight discrimination, you should fight it anywhere you see it.

“And in Rivers State, I believe the people who have the moral authority to produce the next governor of Rivers State are the Ogonis.”

Dokubo, however, expressed optimism that the contentious issue would be amicably resolved by the relevant stakeholders at the appropriate time and “wiser counsel will prevail”.

Some elders of the PDP in Rivers State had, last week, warned against ethnicising the party’s governorship ticket.

In a release, signed by Chief Ferdinand Alabraba and Chief Maxwell Tasie Amadi on behalf of the group, the elders frowned at a situation where people were fanning the embers of ethnicity in their jostling for the gubernatorial slot in the state, adding that it could become divisive and detrimental to the unity of the party in the state.

You Can’t Make Wike Rivers Governor - Asari Dokubo dares Patience Jonathan