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Leader of Niger-Delta Peoples Volunteers Force (NDPVF),
Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari has lashed out at President Goodluck
Jonathan for allegedly placing more value on the life of former Head of
State, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) than other Nigerians.
President Jonathan had said Nigeria would have boiled had Gen. Buhari died in a recent bomb attack in Kaduna.
Saying that such comment was uncalled for, the ex-militant leader
also rejected insinuations that he paid the mastermind of the blast N5m.
Dokubo, who denied working for President Jonathan also said that
the insinuation was meant to tarnish his image as a way of shutting him
out of 2015 electioneering process.
Speaking in Abuja on Tuesday, he insisted his stance that General
Buhari has no good intentions for Nigeria as a result of the support he
(Buhari) gets from foreign leaders and organizations aiming to
destabilize the country.
He said: “I do not work for Jonathan. What the President said
was wrong. The life of Buhari is not more important than 87 people that
died in that blast. It is unfortunate that the president made such a
statement. I wonder why the President will be promoting one person above
that of other Nigerians.
“That statement from the President was very unfortunate. I do have
the capacity to tell the President to apologize, but I still insist that
he should not have made such a statement.
“Soon after the blast, a cross-gender person came out and was
arrested. Even the mother of the person arrested said he was insane”.
On working for President Jonathan, Dokubo said, “Social media
reports said I gave them N5 million to carry out the attack.
These things are masterminded. The first one is against
President Jonathan and the other is against me.
“I did not pay anybody to carry out any assassination attempt on
Buhari. I do not have anything against him. He is not a threat. He will
fail in 2015. For the records, I do not operate a Twitter account and
anyone saying I tweeted that there will be more attacks is only using my
name.”
“They want to silence me because they know the role I will play in
2015. They have also sponsored reports in Benin Republic that I am the
person financing Boko Haram.
“Another islamic scholar also said I am the one sponsoring Boko Haram to destroy the north on behalf of President Jonathan.
“The Deputy Minority Leader in the House of Representatives said I
spoke on behalf of President Jonathan. That means Buhari is the
commander-in-chief of Boko Haram in the north. His allies came out and
made inflammatory statements during the 2011 elections.”
Dokubo also said he he has proof that Gen Buhari was being funded by the late Leader of Libya, Col. Muammar Gaddafi.
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