"Pres. Jonathan Can’t Win
In 2015" - Dokubo Asari
One of the biggest
supporters and kinsman of
President Goodluck Ebele
Jonathan, Alhaji Mujahid
Dokubo-Asari, has declared
that the president has lost
the support of his political
base, the South-south and
the South-East owing to
the failure of his
government to deliver on
its promises.
Dokubo-Asari, at a press
conference in Abuja on
Friday, said that it would
be tough for Jonathan to
win the presidential
election in 2015 if he
decides to run based on
the poor showing of his
administration.
He said that his decision to
speak out was for him and
others who are ardent
supporters of Jonathan not
to be blamed for his failure
in 2015.
He said: “I want to start
with an Ijaw proverb,
which says: the eyes
watched its seven children
to death. Instead of
advising them, it was just
looking at them until they
died, while the mouth
talked its only child to life
and success.
“We have continued as
Ijaw people and the entire
Niger Delta and South-
South to support the
presidency of President
Goodluck Jonathan, but a
time has come when
silence cannot be golden.
“We mainly speak out in
issues that are very critical
to the survival of our
people, the survival of the
people of the South-South
and the South-East, which
happens to be the political
base of Goodluck Jonathan.
“Jonathan is surrounded by
very greedy people who
are only in the Presidency
to enrich themselves at the
expense of Goodluck
himself.
“This brings us to another
Kalabari proverb, which
says: where there are
elders, a goat cannot be
allowed to deliver tied to a
stick.
“If we don’t talk and we
continue to brush it aside,
tomorrow we will be
blamed and people will
say: Mujahid Dokubo-Asari
was around when
Goodlcuk Jonathan was
president and he didn’t
talk.
“Them I will be an
accomplice and accessory
after the fact….
“It is alarming because the
South-South must have its
uninterrupted eight years
tenure, which is
constitutional.
“But with how things are
going under Jonathan’s
watch, we are afraid that
we may not be able to
have our eight years
tenure because there will
be no magic about it if it is
going to be one man one
vote.”
Dokubo-Asari said he will
continue to speak out
despite the fact that he had
benefitted from Jonathan,
adding that one of those
causing trouble for the
President remains the
Minister of Niger Delta
Affairs, Chief Godsday
Orubebe.
He said: “I have benefited
immensely from Goodluck
Jonathan with my stake
but benefit alone is not
enough to make me to
keep quiet when the
period is very challenging
for our people.
“So, some of us are
tempted to ask this
question: why are all these
things happening?
“Why has the President
allow some ministers like
Godsday Orubebe to
continue in government?
“Everyday people die on
the East-West Road.
“If Orubebe is incompetent
as he has shown himself to
be, he should be removed.
“Nobody voted for
Orubebe.
“And why is Orubebe so
important to the President
that he can’t remove him
even in the face of his
obvious incompetence and
several allegation to
corruption?
“We feel very ashamed and
embarrassed.
“Orubebe was one of us.
“He was attending
meetings with us, sleeping
in the ground with us,
entering night bus with us
and we nominated him to
be appointed a minister.
“We have gone to him and
complained to him that we
don’t like they way things
are going in his ministry
and told him that if the
President leaves in 2015
without the completion of
the East-West Road, we are
finished.
“And the man keeps telling
us there is no money.
“When IBB (former military
President Ibrahim
Badamasi Babangida) was
there, there was money.
“When Abacha was there,
there was money.
“When others were there,
there was money.
“How come the money
disappeared when
Jonathan got there?
“Jonathan and orubebe will
account for the death in
the East-West Road.”
On the face-off between
Jonathan and former
President Olusegun
Obasanjo, Dokubo-Asari
said there was no need for
it.
He said that no matter
what Jonathan feels, he
still remains a beneficiary
of Obasanjo’s large
heartedness.
He said: “First, there was
no need for Goodluck
Jonathan to disagree with
Olusegun Obasanjo.
“I don’t like Obasanjo.
“I don’t like his face.
“I hate him.
“But he was instrumental
in bringing Goodluck
Jonathan to power.
“And the greedy people
around Jonathan have not
managed him enough to
the extent that the
President and people
around him will allow
Jonathan to disagree with
Obasanjo openly.
“And if you check, all the
people who supported
Goodluck Jonathan and
fought to bring him to
power, have openly
disagreed with him.
“What was the cause of
these disagreements?
“These are the questions
we want to put to the
president.
“Some people say Obasanjo
is manipulating Goodluck
Jonathan, that is why
Jonathan is disagreeing
with him and we ask: what
has Goodluck Jonathan’s
government achieved to
show that it is a departure
from other governments
that have existed since
1956?
“For us, nothing has
changed.
“It is still business as usual.
“So what are the advice
that Obasanjo gave to
Jonathan that were so
difficult for him to fulfill,
that made him decide to
fall out with Obasanjo?
“Obasanjo was
instrumental and
manipulated the process
that illegally removed
Diepreye Alamieyeseigha
as governor of Bayelsa
State and installed
Jonathan as governor,
made him vice president,
fought for him to become
acting president and also
fought for him to become
president of Nigeria.
“Apart from Obasanjo,
there are so many people
who supported Goodluck
Jonathan, some have been
pushed out by those who
were not there to give him
any support, while some
others are trapped and
they cannot talk.
I have a feeling that Fulani
man Buhari would have
done more for Niger-delta
than Jonathan has done so
far Jonathan has done
nothing for Niger Delta
actually. It is getting more
and more difficult to
support him, the second
niger bridge is another
issue. Even his allies are
denouncing him. What a
shame!

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