APC- Asari-Dokubo Is Not Above The Law, SSS Should Arrest Him

The All Progressives Congress has described as “reckless, irresponsible and totally condemnable the threat by Mujahedeen Asari-Dokubo to levy war against Nigeria even if President Goodluck Jonathan is defeated even in a free and fair election in 2015.

In a statement in Abuja on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said despite the attacks by oil militants in the Niger Delta and the ongoing insurgency by Boko Haram in some parts of the North, Nigeria had not witnessed a clearer and louder call to war than Asari-Dokubo’s “senseless vituperation” since the country’s civil war ended in 1970.

It said Nigerians were waiting to see what the State Security Service, which recently detained for 15 hours the APC’s Deputy National Secretary, Nasir El-Rufai, over his warning against election rigging in 2015, would do to Asari-Dokubo for threatening “the very existence of Nigeria.”

The party alleged that ex-Niger Delta warlord vowed that “he and his fellow militants” would cripple the economy of the country not only in the creeks but also in Nigeria’s territorial waters.

APC said, “What on earth gave Asari-Dokubo the confidence to issue threats against a whole nation? If he doesn’t care about elections and democracy, how else could his hero, President Jonathan, have come to power? Does he know the meaning of anarchy? Does he think anyone, no matter how big, is more important than his country or bigger than its constitution?

”When he said President Jonathan ‘must complete the mandatory constitutionally-allowable two terms of eight years’ or the militants will make Nigeria ungovernable, was he aware that even the North that has become his favourite whipping boy did not complete its own eight years before his kinsman became President?

”It is not Asari-Dokubo’s fault. When we warned against the handing over of the nation’s maritime security to a company owned by an ex-militant in 2012, many thought we were crying wolf where none existed. But the threat by an ex-militant to ensure that no vessel will be allowed to enter the nation’s territorial waters unless President Jonathan is re-elected has shown the dangers inherent in such actions.”