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| FORMER Niger Delta activist, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari |
Leader of the Niger Delta
People’s Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, has dared the
House of Representatives and leaders of northern Nigeria to arrest him
if they can.
Dokubo-Asari,
who spoke with journalists on Wednesday evening in Abuja, said he stood
by his words that there would be no peace if Jonathan is not reelected
in 2015.
He
was responding to calls by members of the House, Governor Babangida
Aliyu of Niger State and northern leaders, saying the leaders were
cowards if he was not arrested.
The
former President of Ijaw Youth Council also added that any attempt to
arrest him would make Nigeria “a history”, asking why those calling for
his arrest turned deaf ears when some northern leaders like former
Military Head of State Maj.-Gen Mohamadu Buhari, Alhaji Lawal Kaita and a
former member of the House of Representatives, Farouk Aliyu, among
others.
He
said, “I stand by my statement which I made in my early press
conference. There will be no peace, not only in the Niger Delta, but
everywhere, if Goodluck Jonathan is not president by 2015.
“I
want to refresh your memories with comments made by these northerners,
who had in the time past threatened war and break-up of Nigeria.
“In
2010, one Lawal Kaita said and I quote: ‘Anything short of a Northern
President is tantamount to stealing our Presidency. Jonathan has to go
and he will go. Even if he uses the incumbency power to get his
nomination on the platform of the PDP, he would be frustrated out…The
North is determined, if that happens, to make the country ungovernable
for President Goodluck Jonathan or any other Southerner who finds his
way to the seat of power on the platform of the PDP against the
principle of the party’s zoning policy’.
“Today
insurgent groups, in furtherance to Kaita’s call a’re wreaking havoc,
attacking military barracks and seizing weapon, but we will not sit and
watch. Kaita made this statement, nobody arrested or call for the arrest
of this fellow, today he is walking free.
“Buhari
made this statement in 2011, he was never arrested and nobody ever
called for his arrest. In other countries, former leaders are being
tried, but here, a man who overthrew a legitimate government, continues
to threaten us with blood and nothing has happened.”
He
added, “I am not afraid of arrest. I am saying it bold and clear
without mincing words, that the consequences of my arrest, Nigeria will
be history.
“The
last time Obasanjo arrested me, my arrest reduced Nigeria oil
production to 700,000 barrels per day. This time, it will reduce it to
zero barrel, and we will match violence with violence, intrigues with
intrigues. We are ready for them. Goodluck Jonathan will complete his
tenure of two terms, whether they like it or not.
“I am daring them to arrest me if they can. If they don’t, they are cowards and shame on them.”
