BAYELSA POLLS: Asari-dokubo Gives FG 7-day Ultimatum To Hands Off Alleged Rigging Plot

Alhaji Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), has given the Federal Government one week ultimatum to hands off alleged plan to rig the governorship election in Bayelsa State and install the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Timipre Sylva, as winner.

Asari-Dokubo in a statement issued in Yenagoa, on Thursday, accused the Federal Government and its agencies of collaborating with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to rig the election.

He warned that except government steers clear of the alleged complicity, ex-militants would return to the creeks to resume agitation with consequences on strategic oil installations.

He 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.

Asari-Dokubo said the new group frowned at the role of the Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Southern Ijaw election saga, alleging that the military received direct instruction from President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that the APC candidate, Timipre Sylva, was declared winner against the wish of the people.

He said, “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”.

Dokubo-Asari stressed that going by the results already declared by INEC, PDP’s candidate, Governor Seriake Dickson, had won 6 of the 7 local governments declared with a margin of 33,154 votes and has thus fulfilled constitutional requirement of 2/3 spread and popular votes but without Southern Ijaw as the only local government remaining.

He therefore called on the Federal Government to ensure the election is rescheduled and conducted in a transparent process just as he reiterated that his new organization would be watching to see if the government still interferes in the process till next week and would then launch “a full scale agitation to save our people from modern day slavery of intimidation, oppression and dictators.

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Posted: at 10-12-2015 09:58 PM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero

Maybe you are a noise maker or maybe not. My bad but who cares....

Posted: at 10-12-2015 10:07 PM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero

Hmmmmmm am gonna love dis. Dem think say bayelsa state is kogi dat they can play on anyhow. I know it's not going to be easy for them to dog in bayelsa . Nah it's not going to be easy. south south is not up for cattle rearers to trample upon.  Never

Posted: at 10-12-2015 10:23 PM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero

Ni so so noise this guy dey make.ni so him say him give Boko haram 14 days to seize fire and stop bombing if not him go bring out him men to fight them,that is more than 2years ago,till now Boko still dey bomb.him say if Goodluck Jonathan no win him go burn the whole Nigeria overnight.from when Buhari win the election till now him no fit do anything.

Posted: at 10-12-2015 10:46 PM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero

i dnt knw the problem this guy, wetin he wan do for FG nw. buhari was different frm jonathan, and moreover wetin concern buhari with ur phyuking electn

Posted: at 10-12-2015 10:53 PM (8 years ago) | Hero

This election go tough oo. What happened in kogi state will be child's play compared to what will happen in bayelsa if them try rig the election

Posted: at 10-12-2015 11:09 PM (8 years ago) | Hero

There is no need for ultimatum because PDP’s candidate, Governor Seriake Dickson has won.

Posted: at 10-12-2015 11:17 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

TOAD

Posted: at 11-12-2015 01:24 AM (8 years ago) | Upcoming

I think this so call ABC is the anti-christ bible talks about and PMB the chief Lucifa. no wonder he tried n fail n tried n fail again until the corran was fulfil.

Posted: at 11-12-2015 06:30 AM (8 years ago) | Upcoming

In Buhari's administration all states and even local Governments must be APC by force...

Posted: at 11-12-2015 07:13 AM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac