Ex-Niger Delta militant, Dokubo Asari, has blamed northern elites for the Boko Haram insurgency and ‘backwardness’ of the region.

In an exclusive interview with Rariya Newspaper, Mr. Asari said northerners should pray for forgiveness because they are facing the wrath of God.

“For how many years the ruling oligarchy of the north has been encouraging oppression? The people of the north are poor, they did not benefit from the years of criminal, immoral ravaging of the lands of Ogonis, Ijaws, Urhobos, Itsekiris and others. The people are watching. They are going to Dubai, London and everywhere to buy house. They are sending their children abroad. They forgot God. They forgot that there are so many children roaming the street. All these things, one day a Daniel will come to judgement. And that is it, it has come to judgement, and the people are confronting them,” he said.

“What is happening in the north is the north creates a monster, and the monster is consuming them. God is angry with the north. Let them cry to Allah for forgiveness.”

Mr. Asari said it would be difficult for a Northerner to win the 2015 presidential election as the fear of Boko Haram will prevent people in the region from coming out to vote on election day.

An Ijaw sovereign state

Mr. Asari who traced the struggle of the people of the Niger Delta to the Battle of Akasa between the British and the people of Nimbe Brass, said he is not interested in resource control for the people of the Niger Delta but for an independent Ijaw State.

“For me as an individual, I’m not involved in resources control. I believe first in what Kwame Nkrumah said: ‘‘seek ye first the political kingdom, and all other things will be added to you.’’ What I believe in is an independence of my people.

“Yes, my position is quite different from what others are fighting for. My position is an independent nation. It is an undeniable right of our people to fight for the independence of our country, which has not been extinguished because we signed a protracted treaty with Britain. We did not surrender our sovereignty to Britain to be colonised. So as far as those treaties are the 1914 amalgamation of Nigeria is illegal, null and void. So also the declaration of independence in 1960 and also the declaration of Nigeria in 1966 as a republic are also illegal,” he said.

I only care about Ijaws

The former militant who only recently criticised President Goodluck Jonathan for running an inept government said he only cares about the Ijaw people and by relation, the Igbo and other ethnic groups of the Niger Delta.

“I have always said that, I’m fighting for the independence of my people, the Ijaw people. I don’t have any feeling than the feeling of an Ijaw man. That is the truth. And the feelings of the wellbeing of Niger Delta and Igbo people, because I share blood with Igbo. I’m an Ijaw, an Igbo and a Niger Deltan. I don’t have any feeling with any other people.”

He said he has not ceased his fight for a sovereign Ijaw State but is only on “sabbatical” as it is inappropriate to fight with one’s brother (a reference to Mr. Jonathan who is from the Ijaw ethnic group as well).

He also claimed that he was not part of the amnesty deal the federal government signed with the Niger Delta militants, saying “I will not use my hand to trade away my freedom.”

Dialogue with Boko Haram

Mr. Asari, who claimed he spent time in prison with some leaders of the Islamist sect, Boko Haram, said the only way out of the insurgency is through dialogue.

“From the very beginning I was one of those people who asked the government to dialogue with them. I was in prison with some of them. I was with Mohammed Ashafa at Kuje prison; I was in SSS underground prison with Mohammed Isa, Hussain and Yusuf, Murtada and others. Late Mohammed Yusuf left SSS underground prison few days before I was put in there. Dialogue is the only solution. As far as I’m concerned, both government and Boko Haram cannot win this war. The bloodshed should be stopped. It will not remove anything from the part of government of President Jonathan to dialogue with this people,” he said.


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True talk..

Don't feel for us

seconded

I also Don't give a Damm sh.it about your miserable and pathetic life.

i before others. a man that can never lead.

I thought dis dude was no longer a Nigerian.

[size=15pt]Mr. Asari said it would be difficult for a Northerner to win the 2015 presidential election as the fear of Boko Haram will prevent people in the region from coming out to vote on election day[/size].

the most intelligent statement I've ever heard the guy make.
This is VERY true, the north has condemned it's self and has made it's self anti-progress due obsessing over politics before human life. Northerners won't come out to vote. More importantly Christians in those states and minorities will be seeking refuge.

businesses, skilled labor, government institutions and now democracy are running from the region. Another reason why Tinubu selling his party was unneeded.

true talk my brother.

Asakiri dokubo has some liver on him, this is why i grade him high even thou sometimes he put his words wrongly

Isn't his real name goodhead uzodinma or something like that?


Good a thing he still remembers his igbo connection/root. Lets hope the rest of his kinsmen still do.

foolish guy
who is asking him to feel for us?
he needs to be put away in kirikiri prison

ak47mann: Asakiri dokubo has some liver on him, this is why i grade him high even thou sometimes he put his words wrongly

How did he put his words wrongly. The message is clear. I understand where he is coming from. I'm the same way. I feel for Igbo first, some NDs such as ibibio, Efik out of family marriage and friendship.. The rest whatever happens to them, happens as far as I'm concerned. I pray and beg for Igbo people independence.

I have some Respect for Asari. Sometimes he's speeches on point, others times I wonder.

One_Naira:

How did he put his words wrongly. The message is clear. I understand where he is coming from. I'm the same way. I feel for Igbo first, some NDs such as ibibio, Efik out of family marriage and friendship.. The rest whatever happens to them, happens as far as I'm concerned. I pray and beg for Igbo people independence.

I have some Respect for Asari. Sometimes he's speeches on point, others times I wonder.

That was my point exactly can you explain the efik ibibio history a bit further pls...

Can you hear this man saying it loudly to the whole world that he is selfish? If you don't care about others wetin concern you with Boko Haram and the North?

Lovely

The only solutuion for nigeria is disintegration, that way the north gets their islamic republic of arewanistan, the east (south east& south south) gets their biafra and the opc gets their socialist oduduwa republic to advance the socialist ideals of awolowo. This will automatically go a long way in stopping all this bloodshed. The vampires holding nigeria captive should better allow us split in peace.

He anϑ those he cares about, can all GO To Hell


Who dey mind this uneducated thug anymore

Lmao. I tell ya, this dokubo dude be cracking me up.
A few pointers. . .

Why is this guy quoting the bible?? Is he no longer muslim??

This guy has made a number of remarks about igbo's. All of a sudden he cares for igbos??

Seriously though, Dude be trifling.

Dokubo, you can continue yaning opaks cos you have easy access to Jo boy. Any other person woulda shoved your beak right down your rectum.

Split Nigeria through a peaceful conference.
Or is the blood shed not enough?

I will love to live my children in a country whose foundation is not fraudulent.
I am waiting for Biafra.

Ikengawo:


the most intelligent statement I've ever heard the guy make.
This is VERY true, the north has condemned it's self and has made it's self anti-progress due obsessing over politics before human life. Northerners won't come out to vote. More importantly Christians in those states and minorities will be seeking refuge.

businesses, skilled labor, government institutions and now democracy are running from the region. Another reason why Tinubu selling his party was unneeded.

There is nothing intelligent about the statement, it's just going to isolate SS& SE more and more. A wake up call for you guys, 2015 will show you that Nigeria does not revolve round SS & SE. And for you to think that other regions won't vote a Muslim candidate is not only too simplistic it's rather daft.

abouzaid: The only solutuion for nigeria is disintegration, that way the north gets their islamic republic of arewanistan, the east (south east& south south) gets their biafra and the opc gets their socialist oduduwa republic to advance the socialist ideals of awolowo. This will automatically go a long way in stopping all this bloodshed. The vampires holding nigeria captive should better allow us split in peace.

MR MAN STOP THIS BVLLSHIT!!
WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY SOUTH-SOUTH & SOUTH-EAST CLAMOURING FOR BIAFRA?

Asari Dokubo can kiss my arss!

ijaw citizen:

MR MAN STOP THIS BVLLSHIT!!
WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY SOUTH-SOUTH & SOUTH-EAST CLAMOURING FOR BIAFRA?

do you mind telling me the boundaries of biafra or the states that constituted the former eastern region? We igbos will be more than happy to go on our own without u guys but common sense dictates that united we stand and disunited we fail. Let me stop here for the moment.

inufele2:

There is nothing intelligent about the statement, it's just going to isolate SS& SE more and more. A wake up call for you guys, 2015 will show you that Nigeria does not revolve round SS & SE. And for you to think that other regions won't vote a Muslim candidate is not only too simplistic it's rather daft.

Isolation from who, you mean isolation from bondage or from people in bondage .

Now tell me in what way is the Middle belt or South West better off than SE/SS.

This is like the Arabs saying they will isolate Americans or the Europeans , isolate them from what

OMO IBO: Lmao. I tell ya, this dokubo dude be cracking me up.
A few pointers. . .

Why is this guy quoting the bible?? Is he no longer muslim??

This guy has made a number of remarks about igbo's. All of a sudden he cares for igbos??

Seriously though, Dude be trifling.

Dokubo, you can continue yaning opaks cos you have easy access to Jo boy. Any other person woulda shoved your beak right down your rectum.

Read him again if you didn't read it he has igbo Blood, one of his grand folks is igbo

I read it alright.
My comment still stands.

The guy chats a lot of hokum

abouzaid: do you mind telling me the boundaries of biafra or the states that constituted the former eastern region? We igbos will be more than happy to go on our own without u guys but common sense dictates that united we stand and disunited we fail. Let me stop here for the moment.

THE BOUNDARIES OF BIAFRA IS THE SAME AS THE BOUNDARY OF IGBOLAND AND THOSE IGBOID PEOPLE WHO ADOPTED IGBO LANGUAGE (THAT IS IF THEY AGREE TO).......SOUTH - SOUTH PEOPLE (ESP IJAW PEOPLE) ARE NOT PART OF UR $TUPID BIAFRA CRAP......YOU SAY YOU'D BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO BE ALONE IN UR LANDLOCKED BIAFRA, THEN WHY DID YOU EVEN IMAGINED SOUTH-SOUTH IN BIAFRA AND NOT MIDDLE BELT OR CAMEROON?

ijaw citizen: THE BOUNDARIES OF BIAFRA IS THE SAME AS THE BOUNDARY OF IGBOLAND AND THOSE IGBOID PEOPLE WHO ADOPTED IGBO LANGUAGE (THAT IS IF THEY AGREE TO).......SOUTH - SOUTH PEOPLE (ESP IJAW PEOPLE) ARE NOT PART OF UR $TUPID BIAFRA CRAP......YOU SAY YOU'D BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO BE ALONE IN UR LANDLOCKED BIAFRA, THEN WHY DID YOU EVEN IMAGINED SOUTH-SOUTH IN BIAFRA AND NOT MIDDLE BELT OR CAMEROON?

I don't know what it is with you and Igbo issues. You are living in the past or in isolation going by the kind of crap you write. Biafra is not desirable to Igbos even though the name is still in use but they actually refer to Igboland proper. The Biafra of the 60s meant Eastern Region.

definitely someone is high on smooked fish... who blooody give a damn about how he feels...good riddance. . .

Abagworo:

I don't know what it is with you and Igbo issues. You are living in the past or in isolation going by the kind of crap you write. Biafra is not desirable to Igbos even though the name is still in use but they actually refer to Igboland proper. The Biafra of the 60s meant Eastern Region.

LOLZ....LWKMD...laugh wan kill me die

NOW WHO IS LIVING IN THE PAST?.....THE EASTERN REGION I KNOW IS THE CORE IGBO STATES...SO STOP LIVING IN THE PAST

ijaw citizen:
LOLZ....LWKMD...laugh wan kill me die

NOW WHO IS LIVING IN THE PAST?.....THE EASTERN REGION I KNOW IS THE CORE IGBO STATES...SO STOP LIVING IN THE PAST

Well,the ijaws can go form their niger delta country,as long as you keep it confined to bayelsa.

You know,there is a reason why adaka boro declared his niger delta republic in yenegoa and not in Ph,and there is a reason why kalabari and okirika people would rather stay in rivers state,than join ijaw people(bayelsa people).

In due course,you will find out why. Just keep up with your hatred.