Leader
of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteers Force, Alhaji Mujahid
Dokubo-Asari, has declared that President Goodluck Jonathan may not rule
beyond 2015.
Dokubo-Asari
based his statement on the facts that the President had lost the
support of his political stronghold-South/East and South/South, going by
the result of the 2011 presidential election.
The Ijaw activist had in March this year declared that Jonathan would occupy the Presidential Villa for eight years from 2011.
But
at a news briefing on Friday in Abuja, he made a U-turn and declared
that it would be difficult for Jonathan to go beyond 2015 because of the
‘greedy’ people around him.
He said these people were responsible for the current rift between Jonathan and ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo.
He
said, “We have continued as Ijaw people and the entire Niger Delta and
South-South to support President (Goodluck) Jonathan, but the time has
come when silent cannot be golden. We must speak out on issues that are
very critical for the survival of our people, the survival of the people
of the South-South and the South-East, which is the political base
Jonathan.
“Jonathan
is surrounded by very greedy people who are only in the Presidency to
enrich themselves at the expense of the President himself.
“This
brings us to another Kalabari proverb which says: ‘Where there are
elders, a goat cannot be allowed to deliver while tied to a stick.’ If
we don’t talk and we continue to brush it aside, tomorrow we will be
blamed and people will say: ‘Mujahid Dokubo-Asari was around when
Jonathan was President, and he didn’t talk;’ then I will be an
accomplice and accessory after the fact.”
Asari,
who said he had benefited from Jonathan, stressed that whatever benefit
he had gained from the President was not enough to silence him.
Punch Nigeria
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