#BuhariVictory: Asari Dokubo Bleeds Like… Is He Attempting Suicide?

A patron of the National Council of Muslim Youth
Organisations and chairman of the Oyo State Muslim
Community, Alhaji Ishaq Kunle Sanni, has issued a
warning to Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari.
Sanni warned Asari, the leader of Niger Delta Peoples
Salvation Front/Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force,
not to stir up trouble following President Goodluck
Jonathan’s loss in the presidential elections, Daily
Trust reports.
Asari Dokubo, a former Niger Delta militant, had
earlier promised to unleash violence on the country if
the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan failed in
the election.
Reacting to this threat in an open letter to Asari, Sanni
warned him against waging war over an election in
which Jonathan had already conceded defeat and
Muhammadu Buhari, the president-elect has extended
a hand of fellowship to him.
He wondered why the former militant is crying more
than the bereaved.
The letter reads: “Our friends think that I am one of
the closest persons to you. An affirmation of that
truism is that my house is seen by your family as their
second home. You would be wondering why I am going
public since it was never in my character to criticise or
even admonish you in public. But I want to be on
record, especially because of many brothers begging
me to talk to you not to commit harakiri (suicide).
They would know I have done my own.
“They said the news is viral on the social media,
electronic and print media that you intend to fulfill
your earlier threat made with your colleagues in the
Ijaw Nation struggle to go back to the creeks and take
arms against the federal government. The question is
when would I see you so that we can talk? What if you
carry out your threat tomorrow? Allah may record it
for me as being nonchalantly unpatriotic. What of if
you die while trying to put your unfathomable Ijaw
irredentism into high gear and people accuse me of
nonchalance?”
Just after Buhari was declared winner of the election
Asari Dokubo issued a new threat, promising to return
to the creeks. He also blamed the Yoruba and Hausa for
cooperating to frustrate Jonathan, who hails from the
Niger Delta region.
Following this threat, the Warri ex-agitator, General
Augustine Ogedegbe, pleaded with Asari to key into the
peace drive of President Jonathan and also accept the
reality that General Muhammadu Buhari is now the
president-elect of Nigeria just as President Goodluck
Jonathan and others have accepted it.