Asari-Dokubo Fires Again: Says Nigeria Will Burn If APC's Sylva Wins Bayelsa Election

Controversial Niger Delta militant, Asari Dokubo is back again with his tough-talking, as he has given the Federal Government one week ultimatum to hands off alleged plan to rig the governorship election in Bayelsa State and install the APC candidate, Timipre Sylva, as winner.

Asari-Dokubo in a statement issued in Yenagoa, on Thursday, accused the Government and its agencies of collaborating with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to rig the election.

He said except government steers clear of the alleged complicity, ex-militants would return to the creeks to resume agitation with consequences on strategic oil installations.

Asari-Dokubo stated that in furtherance of this, the ex-militants have regrouped under a new formation known as the Reformed Ex-Agitators of the Niger Delta (REND), which he claimed he is now leading to press for a democratic process in determining the outcome of the election.

“If by next week the Federal Government does not hands off from the Bayelsa polls by allowing the people to freely choose their leader but still interfering through the observed various guises and deception, then we would have no option than to return to the creeks to press for our rights as patriotic citizens being unduly oppressed and dehumanized all in the name of politics,” he stated.

He continued, “We have said it before that President Buhari is executing an anti-Ijaw agenda and his aim is to steal our God-given resources to rebuild the north destroyed by Boko Haram. That is why he is hell-bent on manipulating the electoral process in Bayelsa State and hand it over to the APC. They are exploiting Sylva’s greed and desperation for power and therefore using him to carry out their evil agenda.

"But we want them to know that this country will go up in flames if they try it. Boko Haram will be a child’s play if President Buhari and his APC think they can upturn the people’s mandate. It would be a grave injustice which can never stand. We are Ijaw people and we have never been conquered.”