In the wake of the fanfare that followed Friday’s inauguration of Muhammadu Buhari as the President of Nigeria, former Commander of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Front and a leader in the Ijaw nation, Mujahid Asari Dokubo has described the emergence of Buhari as president of Nigeria as a product of manipulation.
Speaking to newsmen at the resident of Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) during the 2015 Biafra Day celebration in Owerri, Dokubo said, “Buhari has a stolen mandate. His handlers know this because it was not freely given by the people. As a matter of fact, a stolen mandate cannot last for a long time; the owners of the mandate will one day demand it.”
According to Dokubo, Buhari and his party did not win the presidential election but manipulated the system. He stated that former President Goodluck Jonathan did not want Nigerians to die in the struggle that would have followed and so did not resist the manipulation.
“It is weakening when we realize that Jonathan has conceded defeat for the sake of peace and security of lives. Then again, we ask ourselves; at what price? At the detriment of our people. Now the question is if Buhari can do the right thing. I am doubtful of his capacity to do the right thing.”
In his statement on the Biafra day celebration, Uwazuruike observed the lopsidedness of the said presidential election. In his words: “The Goodluck Jonathan Presidential election followed the pattern of the Biafra-Nigeria civil war. It highlighted the fact that the war has not ended. It was a war between the former Eastern Region (Biafra) and Nigeria. The outcome of that election has justified our resolve for self determination.”
Recalling the Biafran struggle and Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Asari Dokubu lashed out at Theophilus Danjuma for daring to insult his memory.
He fumed: “That idiot, Theophilus Danjumah insulted us when he said that if Ojukwu had behaved like Jonathan, the death of millions of Ndigbo during the war would have been averted.Because he killed Ironsi, he is still basking in the euphoria of a cold-blooded murder.”
Consequently, Dokubo maintained that Ndigbo and their brothers in the South-South should be free to pursue their inalienable right to self determination.
According to him, “We should be given a right to free and fair referendum observed by impartial observers from around the world and not the treacherous government of the United States and their collaborators. Britain allowed such referendum in Scotland; Canada allowed it in Quebec and Ethiopia held a referendum in Eritrea. This is how civilized societies are managed.”
Commenting on his expectation of a Buhari Presidency, Dokubo said that by the antecedent of Buhari, there is no law, ‘he is the law’.
“We hear he will arrest all of us and lock us up but a holy book said that ‘when the enemy comes like a flood, a standard will be raised against him.’ I am 51 years old, my mother died in her twenties, so I have crossed the threshold. I’m not afraid of a million Buharis and I’m not afraid of a million prisons.
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