A
former Leader of the Niger Delta Volunteer Force, Asari Dokubo has
vowed to return to the creeks with his men if President Muhammadu Buhari
continues to interfere in the Bayelsa state governorship election.
In
a statement released by Asari, the Ijaw freedom fighter accused the
Federal government of trying to rig the state governorship election to
install APC governorship candidate, Timpreye Sylva.
Asari-Dokubo described the action as against the will of the people.
He stated that any action in this direction will lead to crisis that will make Boko Haram t be described a child’s play.
Asari
said, “If by next week the Federal Government does not hands off from
the Bayelsa polls by allowing the people to freely choose their leader
but still interfering through the observed various guises and deception,
then we would have no option than to return to the creeks to press for
our rights as patriotic citizens being unduly oppressed and dehumanized
all in the name of politics.
”We have said it before that
President Buhari is executing an anti-Ijaw agenda and his aim is to
steal our God-given resources to rebuild the north destroyed by Boko
Haram. That is why he is hell-bent on manipulating the electoral process
in Bayelsa State and hand it over to the APC. They are exploiting
Sylva’s greed and desperation for power and therefore using him to carry
out their evil agenda. But we want them to know that this country will
go up in flames if they try it.
”Boko Haram will be a child’s play
if President Buhari and his APC think they can upturn the people’s
mandate. It would be a grave injustice which can never stand. We are
Ijaw people and we have never been conquered”
Saturday, December 12, 2015
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