Just
last week, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, former President of Ijaw Youth
Congress (IYC) and leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force
(NDPVF) in a Press Conference yet again stirred up another round of
controversy by declaring that peace will elude Nigeria if President
Goodluck Jonathan is not returned in 2105.
There will be no peace
I
called this briefing because of events that are unfolding in the
polity. Recently, the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta,
Mr. Kingsely Kuku, made a statement in the United States of America,
that the peace being enjoyed in the Niger Delta will not be guaranteed
if President Goodluck Jonathan is not returned as President of Nigeria
in 2015. This statement has been supported by several groups from the
region. Also, the statement has been attracting reactions from several
quarters, expectedly from the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and
others.
I want to go on to say that, there will be
no peace, not only in the Niger Delta, but everywhere if Goodluck
Jonathan is not President by 2015, except God takes his life, which we
don’t pray for. Jonathan has uninterrupted eight years of two terms to
be president, according to the Nigeria constitution.
He
must have our uninterrupted eight years of two tenure. I am not in
support of any amendment of the constitution that will reduce the eight
years of two tenure that Goodluck Jonathan is expected to be president
of Nigeria.
For a very long time, our resources from
the Niger Delta has been used to feed and fund Nigeria, and some people
are still feeling that Nigeria is their personal property, and they can
manage it the way they like. But those days are gone forever; it can
never come back again.
The days when we will elect a
president and some people will annul our mandate, and place the winner
of that mandate in their dungeon and murder him, such days are over and
they will never come again.
They threatened to make
the polity ungovernable, but we thank Almighty Allah, that he who rides
on the back of the tiger, might end up in the belly of the tiger. And
what is happening in the north is a clear testimony that you cannot turn
the hands of the clock. When change comes, nobody can stop it, it is
like a moving train.
Comparing present regime under President Jonathan to the previous ones
A
lot of people will say has Goodluck performed as President? We, from
the Niger Delta have been fair.We criticize our own, but that does not
change what I have always said that monkey no fine, but him mama like am.
We
will continue to support and stand by Goodluck. Our colonial operators
left functional railways system and roads that were motorable,
education and energy sector that worked. But from Yakubu Gowon, to
Murtala Mohammed, to Olusegun Obasanjo, to Shehu Shagari, to Muhammadu
Buhari, to Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, to Sani Abacha, to Abdulsalami
Abubakar, to Olusegun Obasanjo again, these infrastructures built by the
colonial operators were totally destroyed.
We are
all aware of it and nobody can deceive us. But today, the story has
changed. I made five hours from Benin to Lagos by road. Electricity
supply is relatively constant now than what it was before Jonathan came
in as president.
The Abuja-Lokoja road that was
neglected is almost completed and several other roads across the
country. People have started using the rail system again.This shows that
Jonathan is silently moving the country at the direction to satisfy
this insatiable people, while we from the Niger Delta are not being
satisfied.
Before now, we have had university
lecturers striking for over six months, people go to universities to
study courses of four or five years, but the end up staying five and six
years because the lecturers were always going in strike, but that is
not the case as at today because the government is handling the issue.
Even
at that, this is the most maligned government because some people
think, and they have been made to believe that they are born to rule,
and so many people who are very timid to challenge them have accepted
it.
His views on General Mohammed Buhari
They
talk about Buhari and I ask them what does Buhari have to show in all
the years he has been in government? He was a governor in the north;
later he became Commissioner for Petroleum and Natural Resources; he was
Head of State and he also headed the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) and in
all of these positions he held, what were his achievements?
When
we go to Dubai and other former third-world countries, we see the
achievements of their leaders. If Buhari is so good, let him show us one
thing that he achieved when he was in the positions he held before. Let
him show us one monument in the former North East that can be
attributed to him when he was governor there. He has nothing to show.
They’re saying he is not corrupt, and we were told how $2.8b got
missing.
Group Captain Usman Jubril, a Muslim and
former governor in the north, accused Buhari of corruption, that his
cronies were given contracts in the Afri Project, Buhari’s cronies
controlled PTF and we all saw it. But because some people love slavery,
and they will say the master is coming with koboko, he will flog
me if I don’t fall in line. President Jonathan is not using the hammer
that IBB and Buhari used when they were in power.
Jonathan
is not using the retroactive laws that Buhari used and that is why they
see him as clueless. They want him to start behaving like IBB, Buhari
and Obasanjo and then he becomes a president that is strong.
But
you don’t dare a leader who tries to be civil and humane. They want him
to become “ my father used to flog you with cane, I’m going to chastise
you with cutlass”. When it gets to that state, a lot of them will not
be able to cry.
Attack on Baga
A
lot of Nigerians don’t know, I once lived in Borno State, and I studied
Arabic and Islamic Studies among several leading Islamic scholars in
Borno. Because I’ve lived in Borno, I wonder at the claim that over 2000
houses were burnt down. Houses in Baga community in Borno are mud and
thatch houses.
In the same community, they killed
soldiers and the people waited for the soldiers to come for retaliation.
Now, let us ask the question ; are soldiers fighting combatants who
want to establish their hegemony on others?
On el-Rufai
When
Odi and Odioma in Bayelsa State were destroyed by soldiers, where was
the Nasir el-Rufai that is now running his mouth? Jobless people like
el-Rufai contributes nothing to keep Nigeria. They can only survive with
government. El-Rufai ran away from Nigeria under his brother Yar’Adua.
When his brother died, he came back. He wanted appointment in Goodluck’s
government and when Goodluck didn’t give him appointment, he suddenly
turned a northern crusader.
The same el-Rufai said
that Buhari is perpetually un-electable because of his record as
military head of state. The same el-Rufai said that Buhari’s
insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity and his parochial focus are already
well-known.The same el-Rufai repeated a known fact that in 1984, Buhari
allowed 53 suitcases belonging to his ADC’s father to enter Nigeria
unchecked at a time the country was exchanging old currency for new.
The
same el-Rufai told us that against all canons of legal decency, Buhari
used retroactive laws to execute three young men for drug-peddling after
they were convicted by a military tribunal and not regular courts of
law.
The same el-Rufai said that Buhari was so
high-handed that he gave himself and his officials immunity even from
truthful reporting, when Buhari used the obnoxious Decree 4, against
which truth was no defence, to jail journalists and attempt to cow the
media as a whole. This same el-Rufai, a habitual betrayal, who is now
running his mouth, said all these about Buhari when he was FCT Minister
under Obasanjo. Why would anybody take him serious?
The Ijaw in me
I
am an Ijaw man, call me an ethnic bigot, I don’t care, I have no
apology to give to anybody. I am an Ijaw man, if you touch an Ijaw man,
you touch me. So there is nothing about it that I am going to be ashamed
of.
On Governor Amaechi saga/ Nigeria’s population
There
is this war that is going on, instigated by Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi.
Nigerian Governors Forum as an association is not known to the Nigerian
Constitution, and as a body that is unknown to the law, there is no
legal power where governors forum wants to usurp the constitutional
powers of the president elected by the people.
This
is something that will not be acceptable to anybody. They didn’t do it
under Babangida, they also didn’t do it under Obasanjo, they didn’t do
it under Yar’Adua and for Chibuike to arrogate this power to himself, he
has been looking for trouble, now he is saying that failure to provide
security is an impeachable offence. That is what Chibuike is telling a
President. Chibuike has been making statements, disparaging the person
of President Goodluck Jonathan.
He went to Kano
state and declared there that he will contest 2015 presidential election
as a running mate to a northern aspirant. He is free to do so but the
South-South region will not allow traitors among us. And if Rotimi
Amaechi has singled himself out as a traitor, he will be treated as a
traitor.
There is nothing anybody can do about it.
Now that we have come out of slavery, nobody can take us back into
slavery, it is not possible. Rotimi Amaechi with his background enjoys
slavery. He knows his background and everybody knows him. If God has
given him a lease of life to be with people who has freedom, he should
appreciate what God has given him, but to think he will take us back to
slavery, we will not let him do so.
Is there
anywhere in the world that there are more people in a desert part of the
country than in a fertile part of the country? In the whole world, it
is only in Nigeria that we are told that there more people living in the
desert than in the fertile and mangrove land. I’ve travelled around the
world and I know that the said population of Nigeria and the population
of northern Nigeria is 419.
I have wondered why
Niger Republic and Chad which are in the same desert like the north are
not as populated as northern Nigeria. What is there in Kano State to
sustain two million population? Can someone tell me? Is it the industry
or what? There is nothing in Kano that can sustain two million
population.
So all these manipulations have been
going on and people have been accepting it, and now after we have seen
the light at the end of the tunnel and that freedom is in site, then an
Amaechi comes and wants to take us back into slavery. It’s not going to
be possible. If they like, let them settle whatever problem between him
and Goodluck, but we the people of the Niger Delta will not settle that
or allow a traitor in our midst.
We will never allow
a traitor to be in our midst because if God brings you out from
poverty, you should be grateful to God, and not to drag yourself back to
poverty. That is what Amaechi wants to do. We will not go back to
slavery and poverty, and will never allow him to drag us along. Enough
of the handshake across the Niger.
Is it only we
that will always stretch out hands for a handshake across the Niger? Let
the man on the bank of the Niger stretch his own hand to us. Don’t they
shake hands? Why must it be us that will be doing handshake every time?
We have fought, we have seen the light, total freedom is coming and we
will never allow any traitor among us, and that is why the people of
Rivers State are happy that finally, Amaechi has exposed himself. That
is the reality before us.
There is so much joy among
Rivers State people that this is happening. It is no longer Riverine
fight the upland, but it is now a collective fight of the people against
one traitor called Amaechi. This is not an Ijaw matter. It is fight for
the people of Rivers State and the South-South people because we know
that it’s the rat in the house that goes to tell the rat in the bush
that there is fish in the kitchen. We cannot allow Amaechi to bring back
the enemy to come and destroy our land. It is not possible.
So
for us, whether Goodluck settles with Amaechi or not, whatever they are
doing, we have solved that. Amaechi will not be allowed to have his
way. In the first place, Amaechi never won election to become governor.
His being a governor in Rivers State today is the manipulation of the
oligarchs.
Seven sat down at the Supreme Court and
declared a man who never contested election governor of a state. If
Omehia was not legally qualified to contest the 2007 election, the
honorable path open to the Supreme Court was to annul the election and
order a fresh election, but that didn’t happen because it is the
programme of the Caliphate to impose a candidate and seven men sat at
the Supreme Court and imposed Amaechi on the people of Rivers State.
It
was the same process. Amaechi never won House of Assembly election in
1999. Uche Okwukwu defeated him, and the same court process was used to
give him another man’s mandate. Uche Okwukwu after wining him at the
election, won him at the tribunal, and they went to INEC list to expunge
Uche Okwukwu’s name from the election list.
Meanwhile,
he has a voters’ card and up till today, INEC refused to tell us how
the name of a man who was duly registered as a voter, who passed through
all the process of election and became a candidate in an election,
suddenly disappeared from its register, and they declared Amaechi the
winner.
Amaechi has been wining through the court.
Now, the court is declaring other people winners against his interest,
why is he protesting? He was elected by the court, from House of
Assembly to governor.
Amnesty to Boko Haram
As
far as I am concerned, the first amnesty was a mistake and a bribe. So,
since you have given amnesty to one group of people, you must continue
to give amnesty to others. Very soon, kidnappers will come asking for
amnesty, you will give them because you gave others. Very soon pipeline
vandals will also come, you will give them amnesty.
Very
soon, looters of treasuries, like the man who stole the pension fund,
will come, you will give them. You give amnesty because you want to buy
peace. You can’t buy peace because the peace you bought will never last.
If there are signs that Niger Delta will boil again, it is because you
bought the peace there. Since you failed to do the right thing and
decided to buy peace, you will continue to buy peace.
In
the Niger Delta, it is not because of amnesty that there is peace; it
is because Goodluck is President. That is why there is peace.
Immediately Goodluck ceases to be president, all of us who are on
sabbatical will come back. People like us never took amnesty, and we
will never take it, because we committed no crime. Nobody will come to
my land and take what belongs to me.
Look at the way
they awarded the oil wells to themselves. These people are very wicked,
they allocated the oil fields to themselves. This is the worst type of
apartheid, Zionism, disregard and discrimination of the highest order.
The same people are still saying that the people who own the land will
not be entitled to it.
This is the kind of thing
they want to bring back, and we are saying it will not be possible. If
they like, let them campaign. If they like, let them form merger and
association, but all we know is that by 2015, Goodluck will be president
whether they like it or not. If they say it’s empty threat, let them
wait and see.
They
will will unveiled at an event, which would be held in Lagos on
Thursday, May 16, 2013 at the Lagos Sheraton Hotels and Towers, Ikeja.
Fondly
called Igodomigodo, Obahiagbon who is known for his jaw-breaking words
took to a popular social network to speak about the ongoing political
ruckus in Rivers state.
She
said, “My husband feels good when I step out for a red carpet event and
other men admire me. Everyone likes to show off something that they
like and something they think is beautiful. I think it is a good feeling
for him.”
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fan surprised the Ghanian actress by sending a beautiful flower bouquet
all the way from Italy to Ghana. Yvonne was super excited and had to
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The
deceased, popularly known as Baba Ibeji (Father of twins), according to
eye witnesses and his colleagues who sell telephone accessories met his
untimely death when a telecommunication mast fell on him as he dashed
across Marina Street to fetch a waterproof cover for his goods as it was
about to rain.
The
Real Madrid manager, who was in the running to replace the Scot, also
admitted that playing at Old Trafford, will never be the same again.
The nine were arrested by the police yesterday after initially escaping during a raid of the ‘baby factory’.
The
consequences of NNPC pipeline vandalism are horrible, which in most
cases caused explosions and fires, eventually leading to loss of lives
and properties massively.