Sources: http://abusidiqu.com/jonathan-cannot-win-2015-election-asari-dokubo/; http://thecallng.com/2014/12/jonathan-cant-win-2015-presidential-election-dokubo-asari/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter;

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!

Iam Happy Atari is d one saying this

Interesting.

Why do I feel this is a LIE from the pit of HELL?

*following*

The context in which Wole Soyinka referred to him as Nebuchadnezzar now seems clearer.
Perhaps not in the context of a wicked leader but as one who should see the handwriting on the wall!

Asari(one of GEJ keen supporter) is now complaining. Gej what next?

OP, where is ur source?

Henix:
OP, where is ur source?

They are there na! Two sources

I think this story is old and now re-presented.

He said this many years ago wen orubebe was stil d minister. Asari can never say such nw. Who ever that put dis down is not current n he is APC member. Buhari wil never ever b president of dis nation.

Stale story.
News is about 3yrs old.

Is it not funny that APC is now quoting the same Asari they loathe. Anyway, all is fair in war and Nigeria politics. Probably same reason Buhari deserves all the bashing he's been getting.

Flets:
Stale story.
News is about 3yrs old.

Is it not funny that APC is now quoting the same Asari they loathe. Anyway, all is fair in war and Nigeria politics. Probably same reason Buhari deserves all the bashing he's been getting.

sademola:
I think this story is old and now re-presented.

kennyjubris:
He said this many years ago wen orubebe was stil d minister. Asari can never say such nw. Who ever that put dis down is not current n he is APC member. Buhari wil never ever b president of dis nation.

That story was posted today, i'm still reeling with laughter at the lapdog's outburst .

hahahahahaha

Rawani:






That story was posted today, i'm still reeling with laughter at the lapdog's outburst .

Dont be a dummy, post a link to a national daily for today. Your sahara reporters would have been agog with such news if it was true. Or the Punch, Vanguard, Nation etc where threatened not to publish the news too.

News is 3yrs old and overtaken by events... Kapish.

kennyjubris:
He said this many years ago wen orubebe was stil d minister. Asari can never say such nw. Who ever that put dis down is not current n he is APC member. Buhari wil never ever b president of dis nation.

You Lie! Are you God or Is Nigeria Cursed?

This is a very old news, Dokubo can eat his vomits now that GEJ has enriched him............ Check this out


WHO IS THIS BUHARI?

1. Buhari was governor of Borno state under Obasanjo regime and later minister of petroleum.

2. Buhari birthed and supervised the establishment of the existing refineries in NIGERIA.


3. He was head of state between 1983-1985 (a period of 20 months).
 There was no religious crisis while he was head of state.


4. He reduced inflation from 23% to 4% by fiscal discipline and home grown economic team (not achieved under any other era).


5. J.J. Rawlings of Ghana took over 2 years before him and killed all the corrupt leaders, while Buhari only sentenced the corrupt leaders in Nigeria to prison.

6. Under his watch as PTF chairman, what he did in road construction in that short period hasn’t been matched by 12 years of the PDP. Hospitals and universities around the country never witnessed as much benefits as they got from the PTF from any government after or before his time.

7. He refused to collect allowance while serving as chairman of the PTF because he said he was already drawing a pension from government, his conscience would not allow him to draw another salary from the purse of same government.

8. He returned excess money spent to purse of government on his return from oversea training as a military officer

9. He is the only former head of state that does not own property or land in Abuja.

10. Buhari personally recommended late Dora Akunyili to OBJ because of her diligence during PTF interaction.
 Every attempt to rubbish him through probes in time past ended up vindicating him! The man who was asked by OBJ to take over PTF before it was scrapped with the aim of indicting Buhari ended up being prosecuted for misappropriating $100 million of PTF funds!

11. His personal driver and cook of many years are christians
 He has OPENLY challenged those who accuse him of religious fundamentalism to come out and show proof. No one has till today taken up the challenge.


12. He is the ONLY politician in northern Nigeria today who fills rallies without renting a crowd!
 People who know him (including pastor Bakare) have said of him……” All I need from Buhari is his word, I can take it to the bank”.

If honesty and probity are the things you want for Nigeria, now is the time to choose right.
 ”Conscience is an opened wound, only truth can heal it”
 Spread the message to the uninformed, misinformed and all Nigerians home and abroad. Carry Go Buhari ( the people's General)

Very principled of Asari! He is not a blind supporter.
I'm not as concerned to see Gej in power as I'm concerned not to see the expired general in power, come 2015.

Even people who have not seen the constitition before are quoting it. In asari dokubo's words

"Uninterrupted 2 tenures which is constitutional"

Guy, it's old but recycled!!!

Rawani:






That story was posted today, i'm still reeling with laughter at the lapdog's outburst .