{"id":44787,"date":"2015-12-10T22:29:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T21:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=44787"},"modified":"2015-12-10T22:29:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T21:29:32","slug":"bayelsa-polls-asari-dokubo-gives-fg-7-days-ultimatum-ex-militants-regroup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/bayelsa-polls-asari-dokubo-gives-fg-7-days-ultimatum-ex-militants-regroup\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayelsa Polls: Asari-Dokubo gives FG 7 days ultimatum, ex-militants regroup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujahid<br \/>\nAsari-Dokubo, <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_177941052\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Thursday<\/span><\/span> gave the Federal Government one week ultimatum<br \/>\nwithin it should hands off alleged plan to rig the governorship election<br \/>\nin Bayelsa State and install the All Progressives Congress (APC)<br \/>\ncandidate, Timipre Sylva, as winner.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-militant in a statement issued in Yenagoa accused the Federal<br \/>\nGovernment and its agencies of collaborating with the Independent National<br \/>\nElectoral Commission (INEC) to rig the election.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that except government steers clear of the alleged complicity,<br \/>\nex-militants would return to the creeks to resume agitation with<br \/>\nconsequences on strategic oil installations.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that in furtherance of this, the ex-militants have regrouped<br \/>\nunder a new formation known as the Reformed Ex-Agitators of the Niger<br \/>\nDelta which he claimed he is now leading to press for a democratic process<br \/>\nin determining the outcome of the election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf by next week the Federal Government does not hands off from the<br \/>\nBayelsa polls by allowing the people to freely choose their leader but<br \/>\nstill interfering through the observed various guises and deception, then<br \/>\nwe would have no option than to return to the creeks to press for our<br \/>\nrights as patriotic citizens being unduly oppressed and dehumanized all in<br \/>\nthe name of politics\u201d, he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Asari-Dokubo said the new group frowned at the role of the Joint Task<br \/>\nForce (JTF) in the Southern IJaw election saga, alleging that the military<br \/>\nreceived direct instruction from President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that<br \/>\nthe APC candidate, Timipre Sylva, was declared winner against the wish of<br \/>\nthe people.<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;We have said it before that President Buhari is executing an<br \/>\nanti-Ijaw agenda and his aim is to steal our God-given resources to<br \/>\nrebuild the north destroyed by Boko Haram. That is why he is hell-bent on<br \/>\nmanipulating the electoral process in Bayelsa State and hand it over to<br \/>\nthe APC. They are exploiting Sylva\u2019s greed and desperation for power and<br \/>\ntherefore using him to carry out their evil agenda. But we want them to<br \/>\nknow that this country will go up in flames if they try it. Boko Haram<br \/>\nwill be a child\u2019s play if President Buhari and his APC think they can<br \/>\nupturn the people\u2019s mandate. It would be a grave injustice which can never<br \/>\nstand. We are Ijaw people and we have never been conquered\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Dokubo-Asari stressed that going by the results already declared by INEC,<br \/>\nPDP\u2019s candidate, governor Henry Seriake Dickson, had won 6 of the 7 local<br \/>\ngovernments declared with a margin of 33,154 votes and has thus fulfilled<br \/>\nconstitutional requirement of 2\/3 spread and popular votes but without<br \/>\nSouthern Ijaw as the only local government remaining.<\/p>\n<p>He therefore called on the Federal Government to ensure the election is<br \/>\nrescheduled and conducted in a transparent process just as he reiterated<br \/>\nthat his new organization would be watching to see if the government still<br \/>\ninterferes in the process till next week and would then launch \u201ca full<br \/>\nscale agitation to save our people from modern day slavery of<br \/>\nintimidation, oppression and dictators.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS&#8230;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, on Thursday gave the Federal Government one week ultimatum within it should hands off alleged plan to rig&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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