Thursday, 22 January 2015

Asari threatens The North over Attack on Jonathan in Katsina

Leader of Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force,
NDPVF, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, has threatened
that the attack on the convoy of president Goodluck
Jonathan by some irate youths in the Kastina State
during a campaign rally on Tuesday, would be
reciprocated in the Niger Delta in due course.
Asari warned the Igbo and the members of the
National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, who currently
reside in the North to return home as they would
have themselves to blamed should anything happen
to them.
He said, "There is an established pattern of pre and
post election violence in the North. In the 50s when
late Obafemi Awolowo was campaigning in the North,
he went with helicopters and he was mocked. People
said he was flying over the houses and peeping their
wives. That has continued and everywhere in the
country, people say leave them alone, we don't want
any trouble. But I think the game has changed. The
rules of the game have changed.
"For every action, there will be an opposite and equal
reaction.
I knew that the signing of the accord was useless and
that the president subjected himself to sign such an
accord. For me, it was out of place for a President and
Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of a
country [to sign that paper]. But the president is a
humble person. He does things that even marvel some
of us and make us sometimes to be very angry.
"To be frank, I was very angry on that day they were
signing it. The president has sworn to protect the lives
of every Nigerian. So, why would he after taking a
constitutional oath subject himself to another oath?"
Asari, who addressed newsmen in Abuja, said
Nigerians should prepare for more violence in due
course.

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