Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteers Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari said he is embarking on peace building to correct the impression that he hates some sections of Nigeria.Speaking with newsmen yesterday in Abuja, Dokubo said his comments on issues affecting his people have been misinterpreted as hatred for Northern Nigeria.
He said 50 percent of the 197 students under his scholarship at the King Amachree International School in Cotonou, Benin Republic and the Royal Automobile Academy are from the North, adding that his close Imams and other associates are from the North where he also studied the Islamic religion.
Speaking against the backdrop of his recent peace meeting with late Head of State Sani Abacha’s former Chief Security Officer, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha; Abacha’s first son Mohammed in Owerri, Imo State on September 12, Dokubo pledged his commitment to peace and unity among Nigerians.
Speaking against the backdrop of his recent peace meeting with late Head of State Sani Abacha’s former Chief Security Officer, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha; Abacha’s first son Mohammed in Owerri, Imo State on September 12, Dokubo pledged his commitment to peace and unity among Nigerians.
He said: “Having met, dialogued, disagreed and finally agreed with these individuals whose genuine passion for a new relationship with us have mitigated our hitherto held view that those individuals of yesterday actually represented the North, I, Alhaji Mujahid Abubakir Dokubo-Asari and my comrades are committed to midwife a genuine rebirth of mutual corporation, love and unity among ourselves and our various people”.
Leader of the Odua Peoples Congress (OPC), Dr Frederick Fashehun; leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike; and the President of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF), Alhaji Yerima Shettima were at the meeting.
Dokubo, who described the parley as a mini Sovereign National Conference(SNC), insisted that the growing calls for national dialogue is a victory for his struggles.
He however maintained that despite President Goodluck Jonathan’s humility and simplicity, he will continue to support him because he is Ijaw. He added that he will continue to fight for the oppressed peoples in the society.
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