EX militant Field Marshall and
founder Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Alhaji Asari Dokubo has warned
that no amount of threat would stop President Goodluck Jonathan from running
for a second term.
Asari who spoke at a programm
organised by the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC in Port Harcourt said
Boko Haram’s killings were part of sponsored scheme to stop President Jonathan
from going for a second term.
Continuing, the ex militant Field
Mashall said the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC had come to stay,
adding that no government can scrap it.
“They have started oo! The leader of
Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau said in a video that we should not play with them.
He said, Goodluck, I am coming for you. Niger Delta, we are coming for you.
Are we going to allow them to shoot
the guns and throw the bombs? That is when we will dance?” “2015 is more than
do or die. It is our very survival that is being challenged, and we must tell
them.
You are a man and I am a man, we are
going to meet at the battlefield. Be prepared, be watchful. The enemies should
not be allowed”.
“In this region, there will be only
one vote. The people from the North have said that they should scrap the NDDC,
that they should reduce the 13 per cent derivation to five per cent, and that
nobody owns oil”. “We have to gather again and tell them (North) that
they cannot dare it.
The North cannot scrap the NDDC. The
North cannot reduce the 13 per cent derivation to five per cent. If they try it
now, they will see. It is because our brother is the president that is why we
are hanging on peacefully”. He further charged political office holders in the
region to create empowerment programmes for youths in the area, stressing that
they should take steps to reduce poverty in the region.
“If we beg to pay our rents and our
children’s school fees, then what is the meaning of life? What is the meaning
of life if I stand at the gate of NDDC and beg anybody that comes in and goes
out with money? Why would we allow our people to become beggars in the midst of
plenty?”
“Whether you do the right thing or
not, we will fight until victory comes. You (the managing director of NDDC)
never sent us. Nobody sent us. When we decided to fight, we did not know you.
You never sponsored us. We fought because we believe that suffering will end.
But if you, the beneficiaries of our blood, sweat and pains, will treat us as
small children, then, what have we gained in this struggle?”
“Let us make it very clear that if
we did not fight, Goodluck Jonathan would not have been president of this
country. It is because we fought that he became president. It is insulting to
give us water hyacinth contract. I have the capacity to construct the road to
Bonny. Today, vehicles have started going to Nembe, and that is a
miracle”.
Speaking at the event, Managing Director of the NDDC, Bassey
Dan-Abia, said the new management of the NDDC was working to tackle challenges
of poverty in the region.
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