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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This man,Mr Asari,in a civilized country would be behind bars,but here he is...

Nigerians are fed up. He is not saying new things. Why sudden u-turn, the reason I don't know. May be money has stopped flowing. Anyway, GEJ is a goner already.

I think he will still win, but it will be a close one this time

sweettease:
I think he will still win, but it will be a close one this time

u already said it.... u think

This is the type of thread that shld be on the FP..

Azo:
This is the type of thread that shld be on the FP..

Make una alert SEUN ooo

ziccoit:
Nigerians are fed up. He is not saying new things. Why sudden u-turn, the reason I don't know. May be money has stopped flowing. Anyway, GEJ is a goner already.

he is seeing things now....d weed on him Don Dey clear

Barselonia:

he is seeing things now....d weed on him Don Dey clear

yes o, thank God he is waking up to reality

And why is this not on front page?