Asari Dokubo has taken offense to being called a political thug by former FCT minister, Nasir Elrufai last week on Sahara TV. In order to extract his own pound of flesh, the former Niger Delta militant said he had inside information that El rufai pleaded with Chief Edwin Clark to lobby Jonathan on his behalf for a senior political position in 2011.
The leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Voluntary Force said El Rufai was also a political hustler and corrupt public official who was only interested in eating Nigeria’s money. He accused El Rufai of corruption in the sale of several public enterprises during the time he spent as the Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises.
Dokubo queried, “Despite his so-called first class degree from Harvard, what does he (el-Rufai) do as a political hustler apart from eating government’s money? What value has he added to the society with his education?
“What has he contributed to the society other than stealing and looting? When Jonathan brought him back to the country, he lobbied through Chief Edwin Clark to become SGF and later running-mate to Jonathan, he was wearing uniforms at Pa Clark’s place during the birthday of the elder statesman but he did not get anything from the government.
“When he found out that things are not working, he ran back to the opposition. It is sad that el-Rufai does not even know the meaning of a thug; he is the best description of a thug. El-Rufai is a thug because he strangulated the economy of the country.
“Here is somebody who sold government’s prime assets in Lagos and elsewhere. Where is NITEL and other nation’s strategic assets? They sold them to themselves and their cronies. These people are shameless,” he added.