Asari Dokubo regrets fall of Biafra, says South East and Middle Belt deserve presidency

Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force,NDPVF,, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo Asari, on Friday expressed regrets over the failure of his people, for having allowed the vision and the fight for the Republic of Biafra to have been punctured.

The revolt in 1967 led by the late Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, was crushed three years after, by the Nigerian Government and its international allies.

In a post on his Facebook wall around noon, Dokubo bore his mind on the issue, adding that if President Goodluck Jonathan decides not to contest in 2015, an Igbo or Middle Belt person should take over from him.

The post reads: “Today, if anything will stir me to fight, it is my belief that Biafra was right. When I was growing up, we were told a lot of things to hate Biafra. Maybe some of us were persuaded. But the more I grow up, the more I realize that it was the greatest mistake we made for not allowing Biafra to stand.

“You might not feel the pain that I feel, but if an Igbo man does not feel the pain that I feel, I am sorry for him. If an Urhobo man doesn’t feel the pain, I am sorry for him.

“What Ojukwu lived and died for, in the coming years, we will see it with our eyes because of the arrogance of a few people that were born to rule, and everybody accepts it. When you want to talk they say leave them alone. Why should I leave them? If you don’t bend your back, nobody will ride on you.

“For the first time in history, the divide and rule tactics of those who have kept us down failed and the Igbo voted more for President Jonathan than the people of the South-South.

“Our gathering today is to bring the gathering of the dispossessed and oppressed people of the Middle Belt, Ndigbo people and the people of the Niger Delta together and we are going to move like a force.

“Let nobody be apologetic. What we want is political power. Political power is the key to our development and our dignity, and political power we must own come 2015. If President Jonathan says he is not contesting, we must hold on to the presidency. Either an Igbo man takes it or someone from the Middle Belt, we will continue to hold it.”

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