Better hands off the state governorship elections or risk the lives of Nigerians: asari dokubo

Former Leader of Niger Delta militant group
MEND, Asari Dokubo has asked the Buhari led
government to hands off the state governorship
election or risk the whole country going up in
flames.
In a statement he released today December 7th,
Asari accused the Federal government of trying to
rig the state governorship election to install APC
governorship candidate Timpreye Sylva, an action
he described as against the will of the people. He
stated that any action in this direction will lead to
a crisis that will make Boko Haram be described
as a child's play.
"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”.
Aari stated that results collated and announced
so far by INEC have shown that the incumbent
governor and PDP’s candidate, Governor Seriake
Dickson, had won 6 of the 7 local governments
with a margin of 33,154 votes and has thus
fulfilled constitutional requirement of 2/3 spread
and popular votes. INEC had earlier this week
canceled the election in Southern Ijaw local
government area and declared the governorship
election inconclusive.