I had a very verbal phone conversation with Niger Delta militant terror leader, Asari Dokubo today.
In the heated conversation that lasted
over 20 minutes, the pro-Jonathan militant was non repentant and
aggressively supported his campaign for the continued reign of Goodluck
Ebele Jonathan.
I told him that at a time I had
respected him (Dokubo) but now he has lost all my respect; asking how
much money would make him support a killer leadership. I asked how
insensitive he was witnessing how Jonathan’s corruption had undermined
the army and how the president’s failures (not complying with the Paris
summit agreement to station 700 troops to defend the border) directly
led for instance to the death of over 2500 defenseless Nigerians at
Baga.
He mentioned Fulani.
I asked what the poor Kanuri fishermen and farmers of Baga had to do with a so-called Fulani thing.
He responded that the killings were in
the north and he had no business or care about that. He further cited
wars in other places and the example of Libya and the sack of Moammar
Gaddafi.
I told him that in those cases there was
not an inebriated and cluelessly corrupt government that caused the
preventable wars and asked him why then does he support Jonathan who
disgraced Africa being the first African leader to support the NATO
destruction of Gaddafi and Libya in effect, while great leaders like
Jacob Zuma stood behind Libya.
He said something about having trained
in Libya and accused General Buhari, chief opposition candidate of
receiving funds for his presidential campaign in 2011 from Gaddafi.
I did not understand his point, because I
supported Gaddafi and Libya against the colonialist sponsored invasion
and have no grouse with Gaddafi.
I insisted; that why will he support a
Jonathan who aided the hegemonists destroy North Africa by sacking
Gaddafi, now leading to the proliferation of arms and instability in the
entire region.
I went on to ask him how much he had
been paid and what this money was worth, that it made him sell his soul
for a hopeless candidate.
He continued a tirade against the North,
the “Gambari’s” and the Yorubas, saying all were traitors and that why
am I interested in the Fulani ruling me.
I told him that this conversation had
nothing to do with Buhari; that if he wanted he should not support
anyone, or should have brought out a responsible candidate from his
family, but how does his conscience feel supporting someone who was
killing innocent people across the country.
He responded again accusing Yorubas, the
group to which I belong, of being traitors and bragging of all the
bombs his terror group had detonated across Yoruba land.
I told him that his desperation for a
penny had made him betray the true struggle of the Ijaw people; I
pointed out that Bayelsa was the most polluted piece of land on the
planet with terrible suffering.
He challenged my stats and asked me what I knew about Bayelsa.
I responded that I lived there for a
year and that the sky there is still red with burning of natural gas. I
told him how oil spillage has destroyed their ecosystem under Jonathan.
He asked how long Jonathan had been there.
I retorted that 6 years was long enough to effect transformation.
He said I lied and that I had never lived in Bayelsa.
I went ahead to describe Bayelsa to him.
He was very angry and continued to curse
Yoruba people as traitors who betrayed in the past and threatened that
the Yorubas will feel the wrath of the Ijaw.
I told him he was a coward, that if he
was not he would have liberated his father’s house and kept the oil
under its soil for himself.
He laughed and responded that we
(Nigerians) are their slave; that they will support Jonathan to rule
till 2019 after which they will then take “their” oil and go.
He said they were just punishing us for now.
I asked him if Jonathan was supervising the Boko Haram pogrom of the north as some sort of “revenge” for Nigeria’s past errors.
I asked him why Goodluck Jonathan had
not restructured the country so he can preside over Otueke and leave
other people alone and not continue to finance and supervise our
suffering and deaths. Telling him about the failure of the national
conference when only the Yorubas in attendance and Northerners like the
Lamido of Adamawa had asked for their own sovereignty, but his people
had failed to make such push and Jonathan had failed to use the avenue
of the conference to bring about change.
He asked me why I was not invited to attend it.
I asked where his conscience was and how
he felt about the deaths of thousands of innocent people because of the
little change he got from the corrupt Jonathan government.
I told him that the money does not pass
the fourth generation and that the little money he gets that has made
him betray the Kalabari kingdom and great King Amachree and the people
of Ijaw land will be finished before he knows it and shame will remain
to his name.
He went on a tirade about some stuff I could not really understand. It had to do with killing and bombings and stuff.
I told him he was a coward.
He was very upset throughout the interview. I really wish he pays attention to his blood pressure.
Interestingly, he has a Chief Security Officer, CSO; his CSO named Commander George believes in Nigeria.
- Dr. Peregrino Brimah; http://ENDS.ng [Every Nigerian Do Something] Email: drbrimah@ends.ng Twitter: @EveryNigerian
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