JONATHAN CANNOT WIN 2015 ELECTION — ASARI DOKUBO-culled from bioreports online
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....

Askari, my mna

True talk.

Bayelsa side of east west road is nothing to write home about. They have turn EFCC to persecutors of land scammers while many in Abuja are busy looting the billions.
God dey watch for 3D in HD.

I like this dude sometimes before he sticks his head out to speak the truth.

Truth must be told, this is the man that everyone supported maximally in 2011. To be sincere, this Asari is at times sensitive because he knows the pains of common man. The only set of people I pity is igbo nation cos u cannot eat ur cake and still have it. How can they not reason about the happening in Nigeria and fight for justice. Do they think yoruba re fools? No, we re not but we re fighting for betterment of this country. That is why no party can claim to hold firm unto power in south west. Perform and people re ready to support u. I wonder how next year will be but the change we re all clamouring for will surely come. Nigeria deserve better standard of living.

wow.....bitter truth

bosun11:
wow.....bitter truth

No source n u believe?

okiezman:


No source n u believe?

Take a road trip to Niger Delta, and see how PDP as failed. You will see that state that have other parties alone the line are better off.

sako28:



Take a road trip to Niger Delta, and see how PDP as failed. You will see that state that have other parties alone the line are better off.

Now let me show u hold on

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