Former militant, Asari Dokubo has said that his group, the Niger Delta People Salvation Front, is ready to begin its battle again under the incoming administration of President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari.
He revealed that himself and other ex-militants will return to their old ways of fighting for their region if Buhari ‘draws the first blood’. The ex-militant said this while speaking at the Annual Major Isaac Adaka Boro’s Memorial Public Event which held on Sunday. “Yes, a new government begins in Nigeria and a next phase of our struggle shall begin also. Jonathan Goodluck Presidency was like a restraining order now that restraint is lifted,” Asari Dokubo said. “However, we will watch and wait, let them draw the first blood and we shall determine our best way forward. Truly Nigeria will never be the same again the future is pregnant,” he added. “Should Buhari whom like pharaoh has determined in his heart to turn desolate the Niger Delta region, draw the first blood by undermining certain interest of the region then begin the systemic arrest, maiming and murder our comrades, continue the confiscation of our rights to self-determination and treat the region as a conquered region, then it may be honorable for some of us to die in prison or in the field of war as nobody is afraid of him,” the former militant said.
According to him, their struggle and agitation was never about to become the President of Nigeria but about freedom from what he described as “false and forced colonial union” “He, Jonathan Goodluck, was never in the struggle. He was not a product of the struggle but an establishment beneficiary of our struggle. Our struggle is not and never about becoming the president. It was not about being awarded oil licenses and mouth-watering contracts. It was not about massive infrastructural development of the Niger Delta Region. Asari Dokubo had previously threatened to unleash terror in Nigeria if President Goodluck Jonathan did not win the March 28 presidential election during an interview with Channels Television.
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