Buhari’s victory: Asari-Dokubothreatens 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.