Buhari’s victory: Asari-Dokubo threatens return ‘to the creeks’

                   

Leader of the defunct Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, NDPVF, Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, has denied using the twitter handle @asaridokubo to say that he is friend to any government in power. He threatened a return “to the creeks” and accused the Yorubas and Hausas of working against the Igbo and Niger-Deltans.

The ex-militant leader, who had threatened to unleash violence on the country if President Goodluck Jonathan lost his re-election bid, said the election of Muhammadu Buhari as president “is a clear indication that the country is not united” and accused the Yorubas and Hausas of collaborating to frustrate Jonathan, who hails from the Niger Delta region.

Dokubo-Asari, who spoke in a statement issued on Wednesday by his media aide, Rex Ekiugbo Anighoro, said, “Nigerian union clearly reinforces the fact of self determination and that Nigeria remains a very divided and separated entity whose claim to unity remains a fraud of gargantuan proportion”.

“The celebrated victory of Buhari is not the victory of the people but victory of regional conspiracy and supremacy. The voting Partern has clearly shown that the Gambari North and the Yorubas are united in the conquest of the Niger Deltans and the Igbos of defunct Biafra with the middle belt now used as pawns.

“The victory of Muhammadu Buhari is a historical reminder that we are a conquered people who are mere appendages existing at the pleasure of the supremacist and the regional overlords.

“We remain a people separated by our ideologies and interests, we are not integrated nor reconciled,” he stated.

While alleging that the incoming government could attempt to undermine the interest of the Niger Delta, the former warlord called for a return to the creeks, noting that, “The conditions that advanced the need to embrace the creeks have been sadly re energized, it is clear that a vicious government who may maim and murder the voice of the so called minorities may have just been birthed”.

“Indeed integration is nonexistent as regional gang ups and supremacy is symbolic with this victory. “While President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan enjoys his moments and bask in the euphoria of a now world renowned statesman having congratulated Muhammadu Buhari his conqueror, we must quickly remind that our struggle was never about Jonathan nor about presidency.

“President Goodluck Jonathan was an establishment beneficiary of our struggle, our sweat and blood that many bled and died for, he was never in the struggle and he can never wish away our collective march forward for statesmanship. Yes Indeed to an extent he was a mitigating factor in self determination pursuit as we went on sabbatical, this mitigation he seem to have willingly repudiated.
“The days coming will be critical, we shall study all the conditions and consult widely before determining the way going forward for our collective existence and survival as a people. The days coming shall either drive the quest of integration or further separate us,” Dokubo-Asari said.