How Asari-Dokubo Became A Big Man

Date: 06-08-2013 8:24 pm (11 years ago) | Author: Abraham Dickson
- at 6-08-2013 08:24 PM (11 years ago)
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A while ago, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo’s visceral defence of the Jonathan regime against all real and perceived enemies left many observers bewildered. Is this not the same individual, it was widely asked, who had made a name for himself by his charismatic leadership of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, NDPVF, and vocal enunciation of the cause of Nigeria’s oil-producing riverine minorities?

How did Asari-Dokubo metamorphose from a feared Mohammedan of the creeks (complete with the elaborate head gear) to a megaphone of state power? This is the question I propose to answer here, and my very simple thesis is that to track Asari-Dokubo’s movement from the swamps to the corridors of the state is to apprehend a sociological dynamic: the particular mode by which social agents gain entry into the domain of the state, via, in this specific case, the instrumentality of violence.

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