Nigeria won’t know peace, if President Jonathan isn’t re-elected – Asari Dokubo

The leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, NDPVF, Alhaji Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, has warned that Nigeria would not know if President Goodluck Jonathan was not reelected in 2015.

Asari-Dokubo also labelled Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State a traitor and warned that even if the ongoing reconciliation between the governor and Jonathan succeeded, he would still make the state ungovernable for him.

He said: “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.

“(Chief Olusegun) Obasanjo had uninterrupted eight years of two terms to be president, according to the Nigerian constitution. We must have our uninterrupted eight years of two tenures. I am not in support of any amendment of the constitution that will reduce the eight years of two tenures that Goodluck Jonathan is expected to be president of Nigeria.”

Asari-Dokubo also warned that attempts to smuggle in former military leader, General Muhammadu Buhari, into the Presidential Villa by all means by the northern oligarch would not only fail but would be resisted by all means by the Niger Delta.

The former president of Ijaw Youth Congress, IYC, insisted that Jonathan remained the best President Nigeria ever had.

He said: “We from the Niger Delta have been fair. We criticise 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.”

Asari-Dokubo claimed that Buhari would go down as the most corrupt leader in Nigeria.

He said: “They talk about Buhari and I asked them what would Buhari 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. In all of these positions he held, what are his achievements?

“When we go to Dubai and other former thirdworld 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.”

Speaking about Amaechi’s administration, Asari- Dokubo said: “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. There is a monumental corruption going on in Rivers State under Amaechi. He budgets $3 billion every year, and there is nothing to show for such budget in Rivers State, which is a one city state.

“If they like, let them settle him and Goodluck, but we the people of the Niger Delta will not settle and 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 help him go back to slavery and poverty, but will never allow him to drag us along.”