Alhaji Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), has given the Federal Government one week ultimatum to hands off alleged plan to rig the governorship election in Bayelsa State and install the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Timipre Sylva, as winner.
Asari-Dokubo in a statement issued in Yenagoa, on Thursday, accused the Federal Government and its agencies of collaborating with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to rig the election.
He warned that except government steers clear of the alleged complicity, ex-militants would return to the creeks to resume agitation with consequences on strategic oil installations.
He stated that in furtherance of this, the ex-militants have regrouped under a new formation known as the Reformed Ex-Agitators of the Niger Delta (REND), which he claimed he is now leading to press for a democratic process in determining the outcome of the election.
“If by next week the Federal Government does not hands off from the Bayelsa polls by allowing the people to freely choose their leader but still interfering through the observed various guises and deception, then we would have no option than to return to the creeks to press for our rights as patriotic citizens being unduly oppressed and dehumanized all in the name of politics,” he stated.
Asari-Dokubo said the new group frowned at the role of the Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Southern Ijaw election saga, alleging that the military received direct instruction from President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that the APC candidate, Timipre Sylva, was declared winner against the wish of the people.
He said, “We have said it before that President Buhari is executing an anti-Ijaw agenda and his aim is to steal our God-given resources to rebuild the north destroyed by Boko Haram. That is why he is hell-bent on manipulating the electoral process in Bayelsa State and hand it over to the APC. They are exploiting Sylva’s greed and desperation for power and therefore using him to carry out their evil agenda. But we want them to know that this country will go up in flames if they try it. Boko Haram will be a child’s play if President Buhari and his APC think they can upturn the people’s mandate. It would be a grave injustice which can never stand. We are Ijaw people and we have never been conquered”.
Dokubo-Asari stressed that going by the results already declared by INEC, PDP’s candidate, Governor Seriake Dickson, had won 6 of the 7 local governments declared with a margin of 33,154 votes and has thus fulfilled constitutional requirement of 2/3 spread and popular votes but without Southern Ijaw as the only local government remaining.
He therefore called on the Federal Government to ensure the election is rescheduled and conducted in a transparent process just as he reiterated that his new organization would be watching to see if the government still interferes in the process till next week and would then launch “a full scale agitation to save our people from modern day slavery of intimidation, oppression and dictators. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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DeleteOverfed baby elephant from false govt contracts and loots while his kins he claim to represent sees nothing!
ReplyDeleteIs this man still around? Somebody should remind this Buffon that the devastation caused by war has no boundaries. He could be consumed and do his relatives and others! But we know Asari as an empty rusty barrel.
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ReplyDeleteLet God have His way
ReplyDeletePMB,Please stop insurgent at the onset as you did for the senseless boys who wanted to die under d protest for Biafra state.Boko haram was given the chance before acting, now they become the greatest problem for the nation.Act as fast as possible against any distractors(Insurgents).May God continue to guide you rightly.
ReplyDeleteThere are two main causes of conflict, "greed and grievance". PMB evoked grievance with his 95% n 5% vote statement followed by his lopsided appointments. There is grievance in the south south and east. The east cannot escalate theirs bcos the his no resource base to fuel the conflict. Should the south join them and benefit from greed like diamonds rebels in seira Leone, this country will be too hot for APC. PMB can fight BH cos his still has oil to run the economy. Imagine what happens if the oil flow stops and u have to fight BH n Militant and pay salaries. A food for thought.
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ReplyDeleteFormer U.S. ambassador to Nigeria John Campbell severally predicted that the country will not exist beyond 2015.
This predictions is slowly coming to reality.
Islamic Caliphate owned by Boko Haram
Arewa Republic
Biafra Republic
Niger Delta
Odua Republic
Republic of Jos
If you don't believe this , then you belong to the generation that scoffed at the idea
that no man can fly to the moon.
ReplyDeleteFormer U.S. ambassador to Nigeria John Campbell severally predicted that the country will not exist beyond 2015.
This predictions is slowly coming to reality.
Islamic Caliphate owned by Boko Haram
Arewa Republic
Biafra Republic
Niger Delta
Odua Republic
Republic of Jos
If you don't believe this , then you belong to the generation that scoffed at the idea
that no man can fly to the moon.
Asari is buffoon. Buhari will soon probe WERE he got millions to start a Tertiary institution in a west activate country. First he boasted to go to war if Buhari won. NO WAR came. Now the gorilla is screaming again.
ReplyDeletePls don't instill war with ur comments. GEJ behaviour cooled d nation..
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