Leader
of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujaheed Dokubo-Asari, has
described Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State as a traitor.
According to him, since the governor joined forces with the
North to work against President Goodluck Jonathan, he has betrayed the people
of the Niger Delta.
Dokubo-Asari, who spoke with journalists on Friday in Abuja, on
Jonathan-Amaechi rift among other issues, said the 2015 general elections would
“define and decide” the existence of Nigeria.
But the Rivers State Commissioner for Information, Mrs. Ibim
Semenitari, told The PUNCH that Dokubo-Asari was entitled to
his opinion.
She said, “I am sure those are Asari-Dokubo’s views. It is a
democracy and so everybody has a right to abuse; whether those views are right
or wrong is irrelevant. I do not think that as a government, we will respond to
that; there is nothing to respond to in his allegations.
“Dokubo-Asari has every right to his views. But whatever he
wants to say, the veracity of it is a different matter.”
The ex-militant leader said, “Rotimi Amaechi has been making
disparaging statements against the person of President Goodluck Jonathan. He
went to Kano State and declared there that he would contest 2015 presidential
election as a running mate to a northern aspirant. He is free to do so, but the
South-South will not allow traitors among us.
“If Amaechi has singled himself out as a traitor, he will be treated
as a traitor; there is nothing anybody can do about it. Now that we have come
out of slavery, nobody can take us back into slavery, it is not possible.
“If they like, let them ‘settle him’ and Goodluck, but we, the
people of the Niger Delta, will not ‘settle’ and allow a traitor in our midst.”
Source: Punch
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