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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Nice

i don't want to believe this!!!

I read the whole article and all i see is whinning and wailing. Today, he's with his fellow ijaw man, tomorrow he's criticizing him. Is dokubo trying to confuse the country or himself.

Ashari is also a looser like his boss Buhahaa

Naij.com?

Good one.

mere fallacy n fabricated lies

until i see d youtube version i will not believe

Fustrated cow

Wike turned against PDP now Asari is following suit. GEJ you are on your own especially with this ceasefire thing you are doing