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    Ijaw Youths condemn threat to Asari’s life by Nigerian Army

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    The Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, Eastern Zone has condemned threat by the Defense Headquarters to neutralize the Leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, NDPVF, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari following his response to the hovering of two military helicopters over his residence during the just concluded October 5th Local Government Election in Rivers State.

    IYC said the statement credited to the Director of Defense Media Operations of the Defense Headquarters, Major General Edward Buba who also challenged Dokubo Asari to a battle with the military “is most unfortunate and highly provocative”.

    The group said that the open threat to the life of Asari by the Defense Headquarters was an invitation to anarchy and tantamount to a threat to national security, adding that this poses serious threat to the prevailing peace and stability in the oil-rich Niger Delta which is the bastion of the economic survival and corporate existence of Nigeria.

    A statement by the chairman of IYC, Eastern Zone, Comrade Prince Datolu Sukubo, on Monday in Port Harcourt said it was regrettable that the military entrusted with the mandate of safeguarding the territorial integrity of the Nation and preserving the National unity are the ones promoting inflammatory and divisive rhetoric capable of jeopardizing national security and cohesion.

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    “It is preposterous that rather than providing explanation to the unprovoked surveillance of the residence of Dukubo Asari with military helicopters, the Defense Headquarters decided to play to the gallery by challenging him to a war whereas it has failed to go after rampaging terrorists and bandits in northern Nigeria some of whom have even revealed their faces and live locations.

    “Alhaji Mujahid Dukubo Asari is instrumental to the continued peace and stability in the Niger Delta which has seen a rise in oil production in the recent time according to a recent figure released by OPEC which amounts to increase oil revenue to the federation.

    “The Edi-Abali of Kalabari Kingdom does not pose a threat to national security as he has contributed immensely to the peace and unity of the country. He has actively supported the Federal Government in tackling insecurity in the North, South-East and South-South.

    “Therefore it is unthinkable for the Nigerian Military to contemplate a war with such a peace loving and law-abiding stakeholder knowing the collateral damage and economic implications of such needless war in the oil-rich region which accounts for over 80% of the wealth of the Nation”.

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    Sokubo however called on President Bola Tinubu to call the Defense Headquarters to order to desist from such reckless and inciting statement. We also call on the President to undertake an independent investigation on the hovering of military helicopters over the residence of Alhaji Mujahid Dukubo Asari to find out who gave the order and the motive behind it as such is tantamount to usurpation of the powers of the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.

    “The Nigerian Military should concentrate in addressing the myriads of security challenges bedeviling the country rather than being used by politicians against innocent citizens.

    “That Ijaw Youth Council Eastern Zone will not fold its arms and watch the FCT Minister Nyesom Wike use the Nigerian Military to actualize his evil plot of destabilizing the administration of Governor Siminalayi Fubara and truncate constitutional democracy in Rivers State”, he said.

     

     

     

     

     

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