Leader and founder of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, has called on the different ethnic groups in the South-South region to unite to oppose the intrusion of northern imperialists.
He charged them to prepare for war, as he noted that the Boko Haram insurgence is designed to unleash terror on the people of the South-South.
Dokubo made these remarks when he spoke at the 10th annual Major Isaac Adaka Boro Public Lecture in Ughelli, Delta State.
He insisted that the people of Niger Delta region must act fast to foil any attempt to be enslaved, saying that the growing onslaught of the Islamist extremist group was a war rehearsal of the ‘Fulani feudalist’ against the region which produced the country’s economy mainstay.
“What Boko Haram is doing is military exercise, its war rehearsals in the north, they are coming down. Sorry for Urhobo , sorry for Benin , sorry for Esan land , sorry for Isoko land, na here dem go pass come meet Ijaw people,” Dokubo said.
He pointed out that collective strength is needed as the Ijaw’s alone cannot fight the battle.
Dokubo said: “Ijaws alone cannot fight this battle, we are not strong enough to fight this battle, we need the collective strength of every one of us, and this is the last battle.
“Goodluck no get mouth to say he won’t contest the next election. I will be 50 years on the first of June, I have twenty children and all my children from the age of ten can shoot gun, all my children are trained in martial arts, they can disable an able man. We must prepare for it, now I have gone back to the village because a war is coming, the time of ‘no victor, no vanquish is gone’, this time it is ‘no retreat, no surrender’.”
