Ex naija delta militants ring leader, asari dokubo warns against declaring Sylva as governor

Former militant ring leader in the Niger
Delta, Asari Dokubo has warned of
impending doom in the nation should
APC candidate Timipre Sylva emerge as
Bayelsa State governor.
The Former Leader of Niger Delta
militant group, MEND, Asari Dokubo
has warned the President
Muhammadu Buhari-led government
to hands off the state governorship
election or risk the whole country
going up in flames.
In a statement he released on
Thursday, December 9, 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.
The statement read:
“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.”
Asari 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.
It can be recalled that INEC had
earlier this week canceled the
election in Southern Ijaw local
government area and declared the
governorship election inconclusive.