Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, the leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Salvation Force, NDPSF, and one of the arrowheads in the struggle to redress perceived injustice in the Niger Delta has thrown his support on Nnamdi Kanu, saying he is not a Nigerian but a Biafran. He said an Nkwere man naturally knows that he is an Igbo man and that the name Biafra was given by an Ijaw man, likewise the Biafran anthem. He also said that Lagos will not be what it is now if the Ijaw oil cut off.
\nAlhaji Dokubo-Asari also gave reasons while he said he is not a Nigerian, saying, when he goes up north, they don\u2019t see him as Nigerian but rather, the northerners call him Nyamiri while when he goes to Yoruba land, they call him Kobokobo.<\/p>\n
He also said that he does not have any investment in Nigeria because it is an enemy territory and that his investments will not be safe. Corroborating what the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu had said some days back, Alhaji Dokubo-Asari also said that the current agitation for the sovereign state of Biafra is not a call for war but that of self independence. Alhaji Dokubo-Asari gave the comments in a video clip posted by him.<\/p>\n
According to him, \u201c I\u2019m not concerned about what Nigerians think about me, I\u2019m only concerned about what Ijaw people think about me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes I think that, what would those who call themselves Nigerians think about me, they are stealing from us.\u201d \u201c What sort of worry is more than they go to Abuja every end of the month, 36 states plus Abuja, plus agencies plus 747 local governments to share the resources of souk? What is more criminal than that, while souk remain at the backyard of the world,\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is more that somebody come to your house, take your pot of soup, and look at you, and share the pot of soup to different people and then give you just one spoon of the soup that you cooked? So I don\u2019t give a damn about what Nigerians think about me. They will never think anything good about me.\u201d \u201cI\u2019d be surprised if any Yoruba man, if any northerner, any Nupe man having think anything good about me. I will be surprised.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEven though I\u2019m married to a Yoruba woman, yes, I will be surprised because my action is injurious to them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c They enjoyed the money that they never suffered for. Today Lagos is achieving but let Ijaw oil go let us see whether Lagos would be what it is. Let Ijaw oil be cut off and let us see whether Lagos will be anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
On whether he is a Nigerian Alhaji Asari-Dokubo said, \u201cI\u2019m not a Nigerian. Nations are not imposed on people. People don\u2019t sit down in Berlin or anywhere and make people Nigerians. Nations are created by the will of the people. My people have never accepted Nigeria and so, how can I be a Nigerian? Nobody can impose Nigeria on me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe free will of the people create nations. If everybody gathered together, the Ijaw people, you know which includes the kalabari people, nobody forced the Kalabari people to become Ijaw people, because naturally, they know they are Ijaw people.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, nobody will force an Owerri man, an Nkwere man to be an Igbo person, he naturally knows he is an Igbo person.\u201d \u201cSo, if we want to be Nigerians, then we have to sit down, and decide for ourselves that today, we are going to be, or as separate identities, and accept Nigeria as our country, as our nation and we become Nigerians. We\u2019ve not done that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I go up north, do they see me as a Nigerian? They don\u2019t! They call me \u2018Nyamiri.\u2019 They call me Nyamiri! When I go to Yoruba land, do they see me as a Nigerian? They call me \u2018Omo Kobokobo.\u2019 That\u2019s what they call me! Omo Kobokobo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c When a Yoruba man goes up north, they call him \u2018Oyede Banza.\u2019 When a Fulani man comes up to Yoruba land, what do they call him? They call him Gambari!\u201d \u201cI used to hear a story that there were about three people in a bus and the driver asked the conductor, how many people were in the bus and the conductor said two persons and one Gambari. He said shut up your mouth, is Gambari not a human being? But the conductor said that is your business o, me I know that in this bus there are two persons and one Gamari.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, if in the north there is a riot, they don\u2019t kill Senegalese, they don\u2019t kill British, they don\u2019t kill Lebanese, they will kill a Yoruba man. They will kill an Igbo man, they will kill an Ijaw man. They will kill an Efik man, they will kill others but they will not kill a Lebanese, they don\u2019t kill a Senegalese, they don\u2019t kill Nigerien or Malian. That clearly shows that they don\u2019t need you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cListen to the interview of that rogue that they are celebrating. People who joined to steal Ijaw people\u2019s resources, Ahmadu Bello. What did he say in his interview? \u2018That if they want to employ people in the north, they will first of all take Europeans and so on, then when it comes, if they are going to consider Africans they will take Sudanese and so on but when they are going to consider other Nigerians, they will take them on contract. It is there, they can\u2019t deny it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat country are you talking about? Obafemi Awolowo said Nigeria is just a geographical residence. But me, I\u2019m not a Nigerian, I will never be a Nigerian!\u201d On having no investment in Nigeria \u201cIts not about having no investment in this country. Do you invest in an enermy territory? What is the security of your investment? How many times have they gone to destroy the guest house to which Tompolo is staying? How many times have they destroyed the palace of the Pere of Gbaramatu? How did they steal the golden sword of Egbesu? You cannot invest in an enermy occupied territory.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUntil we rid our territory of the Gambaris controlled Nigerian army and their collaborator, we eject them from our territory, our investment cannot be safe.\u201d On his thoughts about Biafran agitation \u201cI\u2019m a Biafran! Yes, in 1967, Biafra was declared and my people were part of the declaration of Biafra. The man who gave the name Biafra to Biafra was an Ijaw man, Chief Frank Opigbo. The man who first plaid the Biafran national anthem was Cardinal Rex Jim Lawson\u20261967 declaration of Biafra, I am a Biafran. So, the agitation, I am part of the agitation for the realization of the sovereign state of Biafra.\u201d<\/p>\n
On whether dialogue and restructuring can solve the imbalance in the country \u201c50 years after Biafra, what has been stopping the dialogue? 50 years is not enough for dialogue? 50 years is not enough for restructuring?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am 52 years old. So, since I was three years old, they went to Aburi. Aburi failed. So, what stopped them if they really believed we can co-exist? If they really believed we can peaceful;ly live together, what stops them form restructuring Nigeria, from doing the needful in the past 50 years?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIs it now? So we are going to wait for another 50 years under the bondage of the people we are better than? People the United Nation and all agencies in the world said, in educational index, they are the lowest. In poverty index, they are the lowest. In everything, they are the lowest. Infant mortality, they are the lowest. VVf, it is more prevalent in their place. Are they the people?\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201c The people who everyday stand up, bring \u2018maitasin, bring the \u2018izalah\u2019, bring troika versus \u2018quadiriha,\u2019 bring Boko Haram, bring this, bring that one, kill people, election violence,\u2026 why will we be able to live together with these animals?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, who is fighting\u201d We said we want to go, if they want to die, let them sit with us, we say please oh, we no wan live with you. Na by force?\u201d \u201cYou get neighbough, I don\u2019t have any resemblance with you. Even my father self, if I marry, I no go leave my father house? Na by force say I go live for my father house? Na by force say I go live with my brothers, if they are our brothers? Na by force say I go live with my sister?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, we are not asking for war? Who wants to die? I don\u2019t want to die. I have 21 children. I want to enjoy my life to ninety-something. My grand mother died at the age of 94. My uncle just died at the age of 98. I want to enjoy my life very well, kokoro to the end.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c So, who is calling for war? Who is calling for crisis? They are the ones who are attacking IPOB members. They are the ones who are killing people. They are the ones who are said they have the power to kill.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNobody is saying we want to kill anybody. Leave us let us go. Like Pharaoh, leave the Hebrews to leave the north. He drowned in the Red Sea. They will drown if they pursue us.\u201d On the solution \u201cThe solution is for us to leave! Every one of us. Simple. We want to We wan leave. No gragra, no nothing. Na gragra dey tear cloth.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am not a member of IPOB but am a Biafran. IPOB is one of the organization. I am into the Biafran agitation. My method of agitation might be different from the method of the IPOB. But we are going to the same direction so we have to work together. I have to hold IPOB, put our hands together and walk together to our destination. But that does not mean I\u2019m a member of IPOB.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the varying opinions of some southern leaders in the country about Biafra \u201c Which leaders? The people who are afraid, people who are lily-livered? People who are sea sick to frown off their mate? They are lily-livered!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTha Kano would have 44 local government and Bayelsa will have eight local government and Kano brings nothing, nothing to the sharing at Abuja at the end of the month and you are a leader, why should they take you serious? You have been there always, you cannot talk in front of your people.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Governor of Rivers state would like a slave \u2018kokokokokoko, take our traditional rulers, go to Sokoto to go and bow down to the son of Usman Dan Fodio and say he is the Governor of Rivers state. But when he is shaking his traditional rulers, his traditional rulers will bow for him. Such idiots are the people you say are our leaders? Who made them leaders?\u201d<\/p>\n
On implementing the recommendations of the 2014 National CONFAB \u201cThe CONFAB was useless. It was not sovereign. It just crashed on the surface. But if these people, the Gambari who have occupied our land are saying restructuring, they don\u2019t want it. That short pig meat in Kaduna who said that Nigeria needs restructuring in 2013 is saying that everybody is a \u2026(incoherent)\u2026They will do reparation. Because of Nigeria, people like that who will be doing \u2018banbi alah\u2019 in front of my house will now be forming.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are saying the report of the CONFAB has been thrown away, they said so. Why are they talking about the CONFAB again? Many og these Gambari are saying the report is in the dust bin, so why are they saying about it now\u2026.who are they going to deceive? They are not going to deceive anybody\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBe you Ijaw man or IPOB, we are(****) them. You are a man and I am a man. When the time comes, we\u2019ll face each other. There is nothing they can do. They are human being we are human being. This is not 1967 when some rural elites went to Lagos and were saying Akwa-Ibom, Rivers, South Eastern state, bla,bla,bla, they are not going to have their time.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe former eastern region which is Biafra will be independent whether they like it or not. We don\u2019t need their approval, we don\u2019t need anything. We want peace, we want to go by peace. But if they want to kill us, we will defend ourselves.\u201d Niger Delta Crisis: Count me out of any dialogue with govt – Dokubo AsariJuly 10, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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