Ahead of 2015 general
elections, Northern youths engaged
former President of Ijaw Youth
Congress (IYC) and Leader of the
Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force
(NDPVF), Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-
Asari, in a war of words over the re-
election bid of President Goodluck
Jonathan in 2015.
Dokubo had fired the first salvo while
addressing a press conference in
Abuja as he declared that the Niger
Delta region cannot guarantee peace in
Nigeria if President Jonath- an is not
returned in 2015.
He also stated that after Jonathan’s
presidency, the region will resume
claim to the resources in the oil-rich
Niger-Delta, saying that they are
currently on sabbatical leave.
The Arewa youths, however,
responded immediately warning Asari
Dokubo to desist from beating the
drums of war over the re-election of
President Jonathan in 2015.
*Asari
They said that the choice of Nigeria’s
next president would be determined by
Nigerians and not Ijaw militants or
pipeline contractors.
Asari Dokubo in the interview pointed
out that the reason there is relative
peace in the country, especially in
South-South geo-political zone
currently is not because of the amnesty
granted to Niger Delta ex-militants by
late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s
regime in 2010, but Jonathan’s
presidency.
Asari who spoke on a wide range of
national issues also said that contrary
to the claims of Jonathan’s critics that
his administration is visionless, the
administration has surpassed the
previous ones in terms of provision of
social infrastructure.
He said: “I called this briefing because
of events that are unfolding in the polity.
Recently, the Special Adviser to the
President on Niger Delta, Mr. Kingsely
Kuku, made a statement in the United
States of America, that the peace being
enjoyed in the Niger Delta will not be
guaranteed if President Goodluck
Jonathan is not returned as President
of Nigeria in 2015.
“This statement has been supported by
several groups from the region. Also,
the statement has been attracting
reactions from several quarters,
expectedly from the Action Congress of
Nigeria (ACN) and others.
“I want to go on to say that, there will be
no peace, not only in the Niger Delta,
but everywhere if Goodluck Jonathan is
not president by 2015, except God
takes his life, which we don’t pray for.
“Jonathan has uninterrupted eight
years of two terms to be president,
according to the Nigeria constitution.
We must have our uninterrupted eight
years of two tenure, I am not in support
of any amendment of the constitution
that will reduce the eight years of two
tenure that Goodluck Jonathan is
expected to be president of Nigeria.”
“For very long time, our resources from
the Niger Delta has been used to feed
and fund Nigeria, and some people are
still feeling that Nigeria is their personal
property, and they can manage it the
way they like, but those days are gone
forever, it can never come back again.
Reacting to Dokubo’s threat, the
President of Arewa Consultative
Forum, Alhaji Yerima Shettima,
described it as an unfortunate outburst
borne out of ignorance and mischief
ostensibly to elicit cheap patronage
from The Presidency.
Shettima regretted the statement
credited to Dokubo, saying that it was
wrong for the President to allow the
former warlord to be speaking for him,
thereby giving himself out as an ethnic
Ijaw leader and not the President of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria, who was
popularly elected based on the
goodwill and support of the generality
of Nigerians.
He said, “President Jonathan should
stop these elements from talking as if
they alone elected him into office in
2011.”

One of the leaders of the Niger Delta

Next time cite the source you got the news from......it's only ethical its seems like any idiioot that opens his mouth this days makes news.....

In as much as I don't support this lame outburst from Asari I still maintained that Jonathan deserves a second term for his good works!

I think I said something like this on another thread. Wise man Asari.

Using threat to maintain power.....hmmm charles tailor did it and now?

Look at this MILITANT that should have been HANGED ! This is the very reason no AMNESTY be granted to those who commit crime against the state. Asari Dokubo is a terrorist who has lost relevance and is seeking one.

Some one should tell Asari that He is irrelevant to the scheme of things in the current political dispensation. Oh I thought He said He is now a citizen of Benin Republic? A social ingrate that ought to be locked up and used for zoological experiment. Perhaps He will be fit for a "cage me A MONKEY" game in the zoo

That is a fact. GEJ 2015 or everybody answer ur Papa name and start stepping.

If a northerner had said dis,we wuld ve bin callin 4 Buhari's head.the other time it was Kuku,nw its Asari,I m from Niger Delta,bt frm d desperation shown by Gej n his cohorts, I think if power was in †ђξ hands of southerners earlier,they wuld ve held it dsame way †ђξ northerners did
If Gej performs well,he wil b re-elected,nt by threats from dis fools

Shouldn't he be arrested to explain wat he means

wwould the battle be in SS like boko haram doing in the north?

kunlekunle: wwould the battle be in SS like boko haram doing in the north?

Very Good question wo..or will they be attacking cities like Lagos,kano,kaduna and Abuja...

A misplaced criminal that would end up as an asylum seeker the very moment true leadership greets Nigeria a welcome come 2015. If He is not careful, He will be history before 2015.

May be He will lead the Campaign for GEJ in 2015