Leader of the Niger Delta People Salvation Front (NDPSF), Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, has declared his readiness to return to the creeks with his followers if the Niger-Delta is not allowed total control of its resources.
Dokubo-Asari issued the threat on Thursday in a statement signed by the spokesman of the group, Comrade Rex Emojite Anighoro.
According to him, the Niger-Delta can no longer sacrifice to sustain the northern part of the country, which he described as a barren land.
See the full text of the statement below:
May I in all humility draw your respectable attention to the very delicate state of affairs that currently confronts the Nigerian Union:
While it has always been the incontrovertibly held ideological belief of Alhaji Mujahid Abubakr Dokubo Asari and the Niger Delta People Salvation Front ( NDPSF ) that the Nigerian State is a false and forced union, a luciferian contraception of convenience dubiously crafted to criminally sustain the parasitic and predatory expansionist and supremacist Gambari North, preposterous events of the past weeks at the National Conference, Abuja seem to have evidenced beyond reasonable doubts that this Lugardian edifice is indeed a mistake of 1914 that is beyond redemption and ought now to be deconstructed.
Indeed, the lie of an illusional and nonexistent unity of Nigeria has been glued and nourished at the monumental expense of the South with specific mention of the Niger Delta. This is an hypocritical reality that must be dismantled, while we have continually shown an unneedful accommodation, bending our backs to a breaking point in the sustenance of a barren and impotent Gambari North, the petrifying odour of their arrogance in ignorance in their dementia thought patterns as the owners of our God-given common wealth calls for the immediate revocation of the further show of our charity.
While we have given a very difficult and unexpected support to the National Conference in the hope that it may help salvage and rework a defective foundation of a union consummated in an illicit wedlock, we have been vindicated that we are not rabble rousing incurable separatist and war mongers. Our call for a Sovereign National Conference to discuss our collective terms of our existence at the table of brotherhood has thoroughly enjoyed the contempt and abuse of a people irrevocably determined to suffocate and confiscate our commonwealth and non – extinguished sovereignty.
Let us state very emphatically that irrespective of the final determination of the National Conference, our minimum expectation and demand as a people is and remains one hundred percent control of our resources or nothing. Yes, the National Conference can go on and propose even a one hundred states, agree to rehabilitate and develop areas ravaged by insurgency and internal conflicts, agree to develop solid minerals resources and whatever, but let it be known that not a dime of the resources of the people of the Niger Delta should be factored into this odious compromise.
It has now come to a definitive moment to demand the abolishment henceforth the sustenance of the barren states of Nigeria with the resources of the Niger Delta in the name of monthly allocations amongst others.
We also wish to warn and call to order the delegates of the now near stalemated and concluding National Conference and members of the National Assembly who are from the South especially the Niger Delta Region that it is no longer business as usual to confetti with our pride and commonwealth, as our resources does not belong to Nigeria.
May it be known to all our representatives both at the National Conference and the National Assembly who continually compromise the interest of the Niger Delta Region that they would be declared persona non grata in the region and their sins visited on them in their own life time they would be treated as enemies of the region as the profanity of Esau can no longer be tolerated.
We hereby pellucidly equivocate that going back to the creeks may be inevitably preferable rather than allow for the wealth of our people be used to develop or rehabilitate a parasitic, barren yet ignorantly arrogant Gambari North.
We are fully ready to mobilise our people from across the Niger Delta and even in diaspora to stand up for definite show downs and direct actions. The Gambari North must no longer be sustained at our expense, our God given resources belongs to us and not Nigeria, The end of Lugard’s Nigeria is Now!
Signed
Comrade Rex Emojite Anighoro (Spokesman )
For Alhaji Mujahid Abubakr Dokubo Asari
And the Niger Delta People Salvation Front ( NDPSF ) Worldwide.
