BOMBSHELL: âPres. Jonathan Canât Win In 2015â³ â Dokubo Asari

Dec. 2, 2013

NewsRescue Update- 1am Dec. 3, 2013: The statement below is the authentic words ofÂ Mujahid Dokubo-Asari in December of 2012. Recovered by OsunDefenders in light of the current political climate. A prior publication of the exact comment can be seen on ThisDay website.

NewsRescue Update- 1am Dec. 3, 2013: The statement below is the authentic words ofÂ Mujahid Dokubo-Asari in December of 2012. Recovered by OsunDefenders in light of the current political climate. A prior publication of the exact comment can be seen on ThisDay website.

One of the biggest supporters and kinsman of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, has declared that the president has lost the support of his political base, the South-south and the South-East owing to the failure of his government to deliver on its promises.

Dokubo-Asari, at a press conference in Abuja on Friday, said that it would be tough for Jonathan to win the presidential election in 2015 if he decides to run based on the poor showing of his administration.

He said that his decision to speak out was for him and others who are ardent supporters of Jonathan not to be blamed for his failure in 2015.

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He said: âI want to start with an Ijaw proverb, which says: the eyes watched its seven children to death. Instead of advising them, it was just looking at them until they died, while the mouth talked its only child to life and success.

âWe have continued as Ijaw people and the entire Niger Delta and South-South to support the presidency of President Goodluck Jonathan, but a time has come when silence cannot be golden.

âWe mainly speak out in issues that are very critical to the survival of our people, the survival of the people of the South-South and the South-East, which happens to be the political base of Goodluck Jonathan.

âJonathan is surrounded by very greedy people who are only in the Presidency to enrich themselves at the expense of Goodluck himself.

âThis brings us to another Kalabari proverb, which says: where there are elders, a goat cannot be allowed to deliver tied to a stick.

âIf we donât talk and we continue to brush it aside, tomorrow we will be blamed and people will say: Mujahid Dokubo-Asari was around when Goodlcuk Jonathan was president and he didnât talk.

âThem I will be an accomplice and accessory after the factâ¦.

âIt is alarming because the South-South must have its uninterrupted eight years tenure, which is constitutional.

âBut with how things are going under Jonathanâs watch, we are afraid that we may not be able to have our eight years tenure because there will be no magic about it if it is going to be one man one vote.â

Dokubo-Asari said he will continue to speak out despite the fact that he had benefitted from Jonathan, adding that one of those causing trouble for the President remains the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Chief Godsday Orubebe.

He said: âI have benefited immensely from Goodluck Jonathan with my stake but benefit alone is not enough to make me to keep quiet when the period is very challenging for our people.

âSo, some of us are tempted to ask this question: why are all these things happening?

âWhy has the President allow some ministers like Godsday Orubebe to continue in government?

âEveryday people die on the East-West Road.

âIf Orubebe is incompetent as he has shown himself to be, he should be removed.

âNobody voted for Orubebe.

âAnd why is Orubebe so important to the President that he canât remove him even in the face of his obvious incompetence and several allegation to corruption?

âWe feel very ashamed and embarrassed.

âOrubebe was one of us.

âHe was attending meetings with us, sleeping in the ground with us, entering night bus with us and we nominated him to be appointed a minister.

âWe have gone to him and complained to him that we donât like they way things are going in his ministry and told him that if the President leaves in 2015 without the completion of the East-West Road, we are finished.

âAnd the man keeps telling us there is no money.

âWhen IBB (former military President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida) was there, there was money.

âWhen Abacha was there, there was money.

âWhen others were there, there was money.

âHow come the money disappeared when Jonathan got there?

âJonathan and orubebe will account for the death in the East-West Road.â

On the face-off between Jonathan and former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Dokubo-Asari said there was no need for it.

He said that no matter what Jonathan feels, he still remains a beneficiary of Obasanjoâs large heartedness.

He said: âFirst, there was no need for Goodluck Jonathan to disagree with Olusegun Obasanjo.

âI donât like Obasanjo.

âI donât like his face.

âI hate him.

âBut he was instrumental in bringing Goodluck Jonathan to power.

âAnd the greedy people around Jonathan have not managed him enough to the extent that the President and people around him will allow Jonathan to disagree with Obasanjo openly.

âAnd if you check, all the people who supported Goodluck Jonathan and fought to bring him to power, have openly disagreed with him.

âWhat was the cause of these disagreements?

âThese are the questions we want to put to the president.

âSome people say Obasanjo is manipulating Goodluck Jonathan, that is why Jonathan is disagreeing with him and we ask: what has Goodluck Jonathanâs government achieved to show that it is a departure from other governments that have existed since 1956?

âFor us, nothing has changed.

âIt is still business as usual.

âSo what are the advice that Obasanjo gave to Jonathan that were so difficult for him to fulfill, that made him decide to fall out with Obasanjo?

âObasanjo was instrumental and manipulated the process that illegally removed Diepreye Alamieyeseigha as governor of Bayelsa State and installed Jonathan as governor, made him vice president, fought for him to become acting president and also fought for him to become president of Nigeria.

âApart from Obasanjo, there are so many people who supported Goodluck Jonathan, some have been pushed out by those who were not there to give him any support, while some others are trapped and they cannot talk.

I have a feeling that Fulani man Buhari would have done more for Niger-delta than Jonathan has done so far Jonathan has done nothing for Niger Delta actually. It is getting more and more difficult to support him, the second niger bridge is another issue. Even his allies are denouncing him. What a shame!

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