A Niger Delta activist, Annkio Briggs, has warned other parts of Nigeria that the South-South will not allow the continuous rape of the
region.
Reacting to the controversy over the reelection or not of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015, Briggs said that the Niger Delta will not
allow itself to be further raped economically and denied politically.
Reacting to the call by some Northern leaders that Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari should be arrested over his recent comment that “there will be no peace, if Goodluck Jonathan is not president by 2015”, Briggs said that any attempt to arrest Dokubo Asari would mean arresting the entire people of Niger Delta.
Briggs said: “If you reflect back on what has been going on in Nigeria, since the unfortunate demise of the then President of the
country, Alhaji Musa Yar’Adua, from that time on till today, all we have had is this continuous imbalance.
“A group of people claiming that the government belongs to them and some of them even said before the 2011 elections that if Jonathan becomes president and a lot of them from the North have continued to speak in like manners, inciting their followers to engage in all sort of violence.
“And yet, nobody either condemned it or called these men to order, not to talk of asking for their rest.
“And you ask yourself, are we all in this same country?
“Now, Asari Dokubo has said what he said, in comparison to what other people have been saying, what Asari said is not even near to what someone like (Alhaji Muhammadu) Buhari said that the dog and baboons will be soaked in blood.
“Also, Adamu Ciroma has said that nigeria will be made ungovernable.
“And since Jonathan came in, all that have been going on shows that they really want to make Nigeria ungovernable.
“Nobody has a monopoly of tough-talking.
“It is between the North and the South.
“It is between the people who are producing the wealth and the people who are looking over the wealth.
“It is about the rich and the poor and it is about the Muslims and the Christians.
“That is where Nigeria is heading.
“So it is better for all these things to be aired publicly so that Nigerians would have the opportunity to express their views.
“But the fact remains that Niger Delta will not continue allow her region to be raped economically and denied politically.
“We will no longer allow it.
“The wealth is in the Niger Delta.
“What Asari said is what our people believe.
“I personally believe that if Jonathan does not continue in 2015, there will be issues in Nigeria, as far as the oil and gas is concerned in Nigeria.
“The oil and gas in the Niger Delta belongs to us and we are in the process of laying claims to what belongs to us.
“Sooner or late, we will occupy our resources.
“And I want to add that the call for Dokubo-Asari’s arrest is the call for the arrest of the rest of us in the Niger Delta.
“Wherever Kingsely Kuku is invited, it should, it will be seen as the invitation of the entire Niger Delta.”
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