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."
0 comments:
Post a Comment