Attack On Buhari: Group Berates Asari Dokubo

The president of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujarhedeen Asari-Dokubo, has come under fire over his comment on the terror attack on former head of state, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd).
A group, Centre for the Vulnerable and the Underprivileged (CENTREP), has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to call Asari-Dokubo to order.
Asari-Dokubo in a recent statement alleged that Buhari masterminded the terror attack on his convoy in Kaduna to kill innocent Nigerians in a desperate bid for him and his group to take over power from Jonathan in 2015.
Reacting to the allegation, CENTREP’s executive director, Mr Oghenejabor Ikimi, described Asari-Dokubo’s statement as “childish.”
Ikimi, in a statement issued in Warri, Delta State, yesterday, asked Nigerians to condemn the statement and urged the Presidency to disassociate itself from the statement.
Ikimi said the statement could polarise and threaten the corporate existence of the country.
He said, “In as much as I do not hold brief for Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, I submit that remarks such as the one made by Alhaji Dokubo-Asari are capable of further polarising our polity to the detriment of the vulnerable and underprivileged Nigerians and I call on all well-informed Nigerians to condemn same, and in particular for the Presidency to dissociate itself from the above vexatious and inflammatory statement owing to the closeness of its author to President Goodluck Jonathan.”
“We are all living witnesses of the Sheikh Lemu’s Committee set up by President Goodluck Jonathan after the 2011 general elections to probe the electoral violence that took place in the north during the general elections. The Committee’s report subsequently exonerated Gen Muhammadu Buhari of any wrongdoing. We are also not oblivious of the fact that three years after the Committee submitted its final report to President Goodluck Jonathan, his administration is yet to implement same, so it would be foolhardy to associate a man of Gen Buhari’s standing with violence.”
Meanwhile, the leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujahidý Asari-Dokubo, yesterday declared that he never believed in the Nigeria project, adding that the country will soon go the way of Soviet Union and the rest that have broken up.
This is even as the former warlord came down hard on President Goodluck Jonathan over his statement that Nigeria would have boiled if former Head of State and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, General Muhammadu Buhari, had died in last Wednesday’s bomb blast in Kaduna.
Asari-Dokubo said the President’s statement was unnecessary, adding that placing the life of one Nigerian above another is wrong.ý
He said: “I do not work for Jonathan.
“What the President said was wrong.
“The life of Buhari is not more important than 87 people that died in that blast.”
Asari-Dokubo, who addressed newsmen in Abuja, also debunked the insinuation that he paid the alleged mastermind of the blast N5 million to kill Buhari.
He revealed that beginning from next week, he will lead a protest in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, to demand and ensure that Buhari is arrested by the Department of State Security.
He said: “I did not pay anybody to carry out any assassination attempt on Buhari.
“I do not have anything against him.
“He is not a threat.
“He will fail in 2015.
“For the records, I do not operate a Twitter ýaccount and anyone saying I tweeted that there will be more attacks is only using my name.”
Asari-Dokubo raised the alarm that all the calculated attacks on him are geared towards shutting him up ahead of the 2015 presidential election.
He said: “They want to silence me because they know the role I will play in 2015.
“They have also sponsored reports in Benin Republic that I am the person financing Boko Haram.
“Another Islamic scholar also said I am the one sponsoring Boko Haram to destroy the North on behalf of President Jonathan.
“The deputy leader or deputy minority in the House of Representatives said I spoke on behalf of President Jonathan.
“That means Buhari is the commander-in-chief of Boko Haram in the North.
“His allies came out and made inflammatory statements during the 2011 elections.”

Wife of the Rivers State Governor, Dame Judith Amaechi presenting certificate of participation to one of the women at the Obio/Akpor Empowerment ceremony while Government House Chief of Staff,Tony Okocha watches.