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.
He said: “I 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.
“We 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.
“We 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. “Jonathan is
surrounded by
very greedy people who are
only in the Presidency to enrich
themselves at the expense of
Goodluck himself. “This brings us to
another
Kalabari proverb, which
says: where there are elders, a goat cannot be
allowed to deliver tied to a
stick. “If we don’t 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 didn’t talk.
“Them I will be an
accomplice and accessory
after the fact…. “It is alarming because the South-South
must have its
uninterrupted
eight years tenure, which is
constitutional.
“But with how things are going under Jonathan’s 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.”
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: “I 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. “So, some of us are tempted
to ask this question: why are
all these things
happening?
“Why has the President allow some
ministers like Godsday Orubebe to
continue in government?
“Everyday people die on the
East-West Road.
“If Orubebe is incompetent as he has
shown himself to be, he should be
removed.
“Nobody voted for Orubebe.
“And why is Orubebe so
important to the President that he can’t
remove him even in the face of his
obvious incompetence and
several allegation
to corruption?
“We feel very ashamed and embarrassed.
“Orubebe was one of us. “He 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.
“We have gone to him and
complained to him that we
don’t 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. “And the man
keeps telling
us there is no money.
“When IBB (former military President Ibrahim Badamasi
Babangida) was
there, there was money. “When Abacha
was there,
there was money.
“When others were there, there was money.
“How come the money
disappeared when Jonathan got there?
“Jonathan and orubebe will
account for the death in the
East-West Road.”
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 Obasanjo’s large
heartedness.
He said: “First, there was no need for Goodluck Jonathan
to disagree with Olusegun Obasanjo.
“I don’t like Obasanjo.
“I don’t like his face.
“I hate him.
“But he was instrumental in bringing Goodluck Jonathan to power.
“And 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.
“And if you check, all the
people who supported
Goodluck Jonathan and fought to bring him to
power, have openly
disagreed with him.
“What was the cause of these
disagreements?
“These are the questions we want to put to the president.
“Some people say Obasanjo
is manipulating Goodluck
Jonathan, that is
why Jonathan is disagreeing
with him and we ask: what has Goodluck Jonathan’s government
achieved to show that it is a
departure from
other governments that have
existed since 1956? “For us, nothing has
changed. “It is still business as usual.
“So 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?
“Obasanjo 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 on
Nigeria. “Apart 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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He's already aware of the fact that he cant twin.

Asari Dokubo sha... today he is here, tomorrow he is there. I dnt care abt politics! I just need a better Nigeria.

In 1983,Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe,who was born in 1904 was 79years old. Chief Awolowo,who was born in 1909 was 74 years old. Both men contested for presidential election against President Shagari. They were older than Buhari,who was born 1942 and will be 72years old in December this year.
Nobody castigated them that time and said they were old. The claim that Buhari is too old to contest is only made by people with poor knowledge of Nigeria's history,selective amnesia or deliberate mischief .

why now? so GBM is the next president. I done port to APC. but wait the source is fake.

FACT ABOUT BUHARI FINANCIAL STATUS RANDOM MUSINGS -

By Omowale Omowunmi Abisco

"How can a former Head of State who should earn about 300 million Naira per annum, say he had no N27 Million to buy presidential nomination form? A very pertinent question, I must say.

"As someone who believes in knowing the truth before acting, I took my enquiry to the Nigerian ministry of finance and this was the response I got: yes, it was true afterall. All past heads of states collect on the average 23 million Naira every month. But with an exception: General Muhammadu Buhari.

"He (The General) objected to collecting most of the allowances, insisting they were bogus and therefore amount to corruption. He personally wrote a letter to the ministry to that effect. As a result he collected only N2.3M, a month equivalent of 10% of what he is entitled, which he believes is his legitimate earnings!!

"Imagine how honest this man is! May God give us the wisdom to accept reality.

"Please let's vote wisely (in the next election), we need a leader that can fight corruption. Buhari is that leader. ETV also has it on authority that he is the only one amongst past presidents who returned his car after a 4 year cycle for a replacement as required. Others get the new and keep the old."

Anyone who votes for Jonathan will not prosper....can I hear your loudest AMEN!