Mujahid Asari Dokubo, repentant militant and leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, NDPVF has ripped the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, for not doing enough to prevent President Muhamamdu Buhari’s re-election in last years presidential election.
He also took a swipe at the IPOB leader for disrespecting some prominent Nigerians, including Pa Edwin Clark, an elder statesman, Ken Saro Wiwa, late Ogoni poet and Nnia Nwodo, President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, insisting that the IPOB leader is power drunk and selfish.
The former militant who tagged Kanu as a saboteur of the BIAFRA struggle told Vanguard that “during the 2019 elections, I said let’s vote out President Buhari and let the person we will vote for also know that we are the ones that supported him, so that when the person is there, even if he’s not with us, he will know that we contributed to the removal of Buhari.
“He said no and started calling me saboteur. At the end of the day, Nnamdi Kanu came and said people should go and vote. He said he had signed, sealed and delivered documents. Over one year and five months after the election, we have not seen the signed, sealed and delivered documents.”
The former allies went their separate ways, few years ago, over irreconcilable political differences and Kanu has since left the country after security forces lay siege in his Abia home few years ago.
Few months ago, the former Niger Delta freedom fighter told Kanu to come back home to continue with the IPOB struggle, because as he put it at the time, the aim of achieving a BIAFRA nation cannot be achieved with the IPOB leader in exile.
Asari’s latest outburst, however shed more lights on the deep-seated animosity between the former comrades, some say.
He also stated that one of his problems with Kanu is that he declared himself the Supreme leader of BIAFR and that’s why “It gives me regret that in my life, I ever associated with a person called Nnamdi Kanu. That when he was in crisis, I came out to defend him. In fact, my greatest regret is associating with Nnamdi Kanu. I can’t make peace with somebody like him. It’s a foreclosed issue because he has nothing to offer other than to derail our struggle,” Asari-dokubo said.
He said the BIAFRA struggle is doomed with Kanu as leader, adding that some prominent Nigerians made a mistake for ensuring that the IPOB leader was released from prison.
According to him “With Nnamdi Kanu, there’s no hope for Biafra. Those of us who get close to him know he’s not fighting for any Biafra. Nnamdi Kanu is just one individual in Biafra, so, we shouldn’t make him important, he’s not. He’s just like everyone one of us.
“He’s not in any struggle. Whatever spell he has cast on the Igbo will be removed very soon and their eyes will open. When he was in trouble, all of us came out to defend him because an injury to one is an injury to all. We risked our lives by speaking in support of him, for him to be released from prison and for him not to be killed.
“Now, he sees those of us who fought on his behalf for his freedom as his followers. Some of us regret ever lending our voice. We would have left him to rot in jail because he’s caused more harm to Biafra struggle than anyone else.”
“Listen to him! Don’t you listen to his broadcast? His insults to every Igbo person that disagrees with him? He has also extended his insults to other tribes including the Ijaw people.
“He’s attacking Ralph Uwazuruike and Nnia Nwodo (Ohanaeze leader). Now, he’s attacking Pa Edwin Clark who’s not a Biafran. Biafra is the former Eastern Region. Pa Clark has never been an Easterner but from the Western Region to Mid-Western Region. So he’s gone outside the Igbo to abuse Pa Clark, Isaac Boro, Ken Saro-Wiwa.
“How can you bring unity to the people by abusing and attacking their leaders? Is Biafra struggle an Igbo struggle? He’s making it an Igbo struggle. The Biafra Nnamdi Kanu is pursuing will be worse than Southern Sudan if he wants to promote Igbo hegemony over and above Ijaw hegemony, Ibibio hegemony, and so on.
“He’s power-drunk. We are not even done with the struggle, he’s assumed the position of leadership, calling himself the supreme leader.”
The bottom line of the disagreement between the former comrades at arms, he said, is that the IPOB leader failed to support the struggle to stop President Buhari from re-election during the 2019 election.
He said “It was during the Anambra governorship election when he said there would be no election in the state and I disagreed with him. I said it would be a fatal mistake not to participate in the election. I told him it will be better to elect somebody who will have some form of sympathy, even if the person is not totally in the struggle, than to elect an open enemy, who will use the state resources to support our enemies. He said no and declared that day ‘Ofe nsala’ day.
“Again, during the 2019 elections, I said let’s vote out President Buhari and let the person we will vote for also know that we are the ones that supported him, so that when the person is there, even if he’s not with us, he will know that we contributed to the removal of Buhari.
“He said no and started calling me saboteur. At the end of the day, Nnamdi Kanu came and said people should go and vote. He said he had signed, sealed and delivered documents. Over one year and five months after the election, we have not seen the signed, sealed and delivered documents.”
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