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! www.talkofnaija.com/news/696047_bombshell-pres-jonathan-can-t-win-in-2015-dokubo-asari

so u have join ur boko rams brodas. Plz is uwazurike still alive? Plz he should start to arrange and fix our promise land. Biafra is on it way

This is fabricated news. The only bombshell here is the spate of falsehood being peddled around. The last Interview he gave where he was angry because his demands were not met, was in 2012 Dec

Shotup asari,u never colect november salary ba?Jonathan is d right man 4 Nigeria