Asari-Dokubo, who was speaking on Thursday night at a strategic partnership session with ex-militant leaders organised by the Niger Delta Development Commission, said “2015 is more than do-or-die. It is our very survival that is being challenged; it is our very existence that is being challenged.”
He reportedly said, “They are starting oo! Shekau (Boko Haram leader) said in his video that we should not play with them. He said ‘Goodluck, I am coming for you. Niger Delta, we are coming for you.’ Are we going to allow them? They will shoot the guns; throw the bombs and that is when we will dance.
“2015 is more than do-or-die. It is our very survival that is being challenged; it is our very existence that is being challenged and we must tell them; you are a man and I am a man, we are going to meet at the battlefield. Be prepared, be watchful. The enemies should not be allowed. In this region, there will be only one vote.”
Asari-Dokubo also talked about calls by the North for the reduction of 13 per cent derivation received by oil producing states to 5 per cent saying they shouldn’t dare.
“The people from the North have said that NDDC should be scrapped. They said 13 percent derivation should be reduced to five percent and that nobody owns oil.
“We have to gather again and tell them (North) that they dare not do it (scrap NDDC and reduce derivation). If they (North) try it now, they will see it. It is because our brother is the President; that is why we are hanging it (peaceful).”
Mujahid Asari-Dokubo is a former militant who later embraced late President Umar Musa Yar’Adua’s Amnesty Programme initiated to maintain peace and stability in the Niger Delta region.
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