Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Mujahid Asari- Dokubo, has described the Rivers State Governor and chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum as a “traitor.”
Asari-Dokubo, while speaking through a phone-in radio programme in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Saturday, stated that the governor’s political ambition did not tally with the ambition of the people of the state.
He boasted that Amaechi would be “treated like a traitor” for reportedly challenging President Goodluck Jonathan on some government policies and the 2015 elections.
His words, “Amaechi and his Commissioners can go back to slavery and continue to serve the Northerners, who claim to have been born to rule. We will never go back to slavery. We know the quality of those who are Commissioners in Rivers State.
“Amaechi and his ambition must be tied to the ambition of his people. In Kano, Amaechi said he would run as vice-president, if invited. I speak with all sense of responsibility. The oppressed people of the Niger Delta, through President Jonathan, will win in 2015. We will win clearly and convincingly.
“Amaechi is a traitor and he will be treated like a traitor. Amaechi is not more Ikwerre than me. It is about liberty to rule. Amaechi wants to take us back to slavery. It will not be possible. The era of northern godfathers is gone.
“President Goodluck Jonathan will win in 2015. If he does not win, they will not be able to handle the consequences. An end must come to the suppression, oppression, repression and marginalisation of the people of the Niger Delta.
“The South-South and South-East people have been brushed aside for too long. People of the North said they would make Nigeria ungovernable for Jonathan, if he won in 2011, which they are doing.”
In snappy reaction, the state Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Emmanuel Chinda, said contrary to Dokubo-Asari’s claim, Amaechi was not a traitor.
Chinda expressed dissatisfaction over Dokubo-Asari’s stand on issues concerning the governor and the state.
He accused the former militant and a few others of creating problems between President Goodluck Jonathan and the state governor for their selfish interests, adding that the people of the state were behind the new elected NGF chairman.
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