Most Politicians Came Into Power By Manipulation – Asari

The leader of Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujaheed Asari Dokubo, has broken his silence on the recent political crisis in Rivers State.
The outspoken Niger Delta activist in a chat with National Point newspaper during the funeral of the Amanyanabo of Kalabari Kingdom, King (Prof.) T.J.T. Princewill, Amachree XI in Buguma, said whatever the current governor Sir Siminalayi Fubara and his predecessor, Chief Nyesom Wike (current minister of Federal Capital Territory) agreed on was private to them.
“Politics in Nigeria is not the way it should be. If the process of election in Nigeria is free and fair, many people being declared winners cannot win councillorship election in their wards,” he said.
He said that elections in Nigeria are all about manipulation and those who manipulate the elections are always bent on extracting what they have invested.
“It is manipulation that took place and brought them to power. People want to extract what they have invested. That is the quarrel that they (Wike and Fubara) are having. It is not in the interest of Rivers people.
“Some people say you stoop to conquer. You have stooped, you have conquered and you want to flex muscle with those who were your benefactors. That is the problem we are having now,” he said.
Dokubo, a former Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) president, maintained that though Fubara was an Ijaw son, he did not contest the election on Ijaw platform.
“When he came into power he did not behave like an Ijaw man. Today, he has problems. Nobody will allow his child to be killed because he offended you. So, the Ijaws are rallying around him and it is within the right of the Ijaw people to rally round their own,” he said.
The Niger Delta leader urged the governor to know that after getting the support of the Ijaw today, he should make it a point of duty to correct the wrongs that have occurred in the state.
“The governor himself should know that if the Ijaws rally round him, he has a duty to correct the wrongs that have happened in Rivers State. Nobody is telling him to come and rule like the previous governor did; the lopsidedness was an attempt to eliminate Ijaw people. Let him rule like a Rivers man, not like an Ikwerre man, not like an Ijaw man, not like an Ogoni man and not like a tribalist but like a true Rivers man who is a governor,” the warlord stressed.