Leader of the Niger
Delta Peoples Volunteers Force, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, has
declared that President Goodluck Jonathan may not rule beyond 2015.
Dokubo-Asari based his
statement on the facts that the President had lost the support of his
political stronghold-South/East and South/South, going by the result of
the 2011 presidential election.
The Ijaw activist had in March this year declared that Jonathan would occupy the Presidential Villa for eight years from 2011.
But at a news briefing
on Friday in Abuja, he made a U-turn and declared that it would be
difficult for Jonathan to go beyond 2015 because of the ‘greedy’ people
around him.
He said these people were responsible for the current rift between Jonathan and ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo.
He said, “We have
continued as Ijaw people and the entire Niger Delta and South-South to
support President (Goodluck) Jonathan, but the time has come when silent
cannot be golden. We must speak out on issues that are very critical
for the survival of our people, the survival of the people of the
South-South and the South-East, which is the political base Jonathan.
“Jonathan is surrounded
by very greedy people who are only in the Presidency to enrich
themselves at the expense of the President himself.
“This brings us to
another Kalabari proverb which says: ‘Where there are elders, a goat
cannot be allowed to deliver while 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 Jonathan was President,
and he didn’t talk;’ then I will be an accomplice and accessory after
the fact.”
Asari, who said he had
benefited from Jonathan, stressed that whatever benefit he had gained
from the President was not enough to silence him.
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