Asari-Dokubo Threatens War If Buhari Undermines The Interest Of The Niger Delta

Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, former militant leader has warned
President-elect Muhammadu Buhari against undermining the interest of
the Niger Delta.

According to THE CABLE, Asari-Dokubo issued the warning on Sunday
during the annual Isaac Adaka Boro's memorial public event convened by
Rex Anighoro, spokesman of the Niger Delta People Salvation Front
(NDPSF).

He said, ''Yes, a new government begins in Nigeria and a next phase of
our struggle shall begin. Jonathan Goodluck presidency was like a
restraining order. Now that the restraint is lifted, however, we will
watch and wait, let them draw the first blood and we shall determine
our best way forward. Nigeria will never be the same again. The future
is pregnant.

''Let it be known that we were not defeated. It was Jonathan and his
party that lost an election. We as a people, indeed, the Niger Delta
region alongside the Igbos, were never defeated. We collectively
rejected the born-to-rule and supremacist agenda which some of our
brothers as field slaves and taskmasters supported, yet their number
shows that they are of little consequence. We must however not take
them for granted.

''Should Buhari who like Pharaoh has determined in his heart to turn
desolate the Niger Delta region, draw the first blood by undermining
certain interest of the region, then begin the systemic arrest,
maiming and murder our comrades, continue the confiscation of our
rights to self determination and treat the region as a conquered
region, then it may be honourable for some of us to die in prison or
in the field of war as nobody is afraid of him." Dokubo further
accused some ex-militants of being more concerned about how to benefit
from Buhari's government than focus on issues relevant to the region.

''Many so-called generals of the Niger Delta struggle have proven more
than ever that they are petty penny merchants as they have fled the
battlefield even before the first fire of the gun desperately
negotiating to be accommodated in Buhari's government as field
slaves''.

''Jonathan Goodluck was never in the struggle. He was not a product of
the struggle but an establishment beneficiary of our struggle,. Our
struggle is not and never about becoming the president. It was not
about being awarded oil licences and mouth-watering contracts. It was
not about massive infrastructural development of the Niger Delta
Region. It was not about high scale appointments employment and
empowerment. It was never about interventionist programmes and
projects.

''Our struggle indeed is about our collective freedom from a false and
forced colonial union that has remained divided and unintegrated. It
is about our being conferred a slave status and seen as a conquered
people who must exist at the mercy of the overloads and supremacist
class using our own brothers as taskmasters against us in a Nigerian
union''.