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!
http://www.kulzone.tk/2014/10/bombshell-president-jonathan-cant-win.html?m=1

You have a point though.

Wow! He really said all of these against Jonathan?! My faith in humanity is being gradually restored. This man has made it clear that he would do anything to ensure that presidency stays in his region within the constitutionally allowed period . . . BUT not at the expenses of development.

Just wow! . . . but do I expect to see this on the frontpage, Nope! Faith in Nairaland Objectivity . . . loading!

See fear on jonathan's face as if dokubo is talking to him from the picture.

Dokubo should be in a mental asylum