Asari Dokubo Was Not Behind Buhari's Bombing...Niger Delta Group

The Niger Delta Peoples Salvation Front (NDPSF) and the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF) have said the leader of the NDPVF, Alhaji Muhjahid Dokubo-Asari, had no hand in the recent bombing in Kaduna where former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, nearly lost his life.

The groups described insinuations that Dokubo-Asari masterminded the bombing as a lie by some people bent on discrediting their leader.

Addressing newsmen in Port Harcourt yesterday, NDPVF National Chairman, Aladiokuma Hart, said the allegation was part of a plot to keep the former militant out of the 2015 elections. He however said the plot would fail.

He therefore challenged those behind the insinuation to prove it by coming out with facts and figures, adding that same ploy was used in the case of the abduction of the Chibok girls.

His words: “We want to categorically state that anybody carrying this sort of rumour should be ready to stand and testify when called upon with facts and figures, date, time and (the) venue that he or she knows how Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari masterminded the attack.

“They should come out to the open and stop using the Press as a grapevine for defamation of character. They are all a drowning people looking for what to take hold of in their failed mission.
"Your plot to keep Dokubo-Asari out of 2015 will not work. You tried it in the Republic of Benin, where our leader was going about his normal business and you never succeeded.

"He is crying foul today; he is the same person that generated the Boko Haram sect. He has promised to make Nigeria ungovernable and also promised blood bath.

"I quote him, 'if what happened in 2011 should happen again in 2015, by the grace of God, the dog and the baboon would all be soaked in blood'", he said.

Hart however condemned the recent violence and killings of defenceless and innocent people of Nigeria in the northern part of the country by members of the Boko Haram, declaring that such action "is unjust and is not acceptable by the people of the Niger Delta”.

He warned that no harm should befall President Goodluck Jonathan, Dokubo-Asari or any person from Niger Delta as the group would take reprisal actions.

“We use this forum to state categorically that with all these happenings, scams and blackmails originating from Buhari and his cohorts, if anything happens to the President or our leader, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari or any Niger Delta son, the reprisal action will turn dark clouds in Nigeria. Buhari be warned,” he said.

He also said, “We are not and shall never be afraid of the empty threats by the Boko Haram. The Niger Delta People Salvation Front/Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force is well prepared for the Boko Haram to any length and breadth they want it.

"The NDPSF/NDPVF will stand behind our brother, President Goodluck Jonathan, to run for a second term come 2015 and call on him to declare his intention to be re-elected into office and continue his transformation agenda for the good of the nation.”