Niger State governor, Dr Muazu Babangida Aliyu has asked security agencies in the country to arrest the leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Alhaji Asari Dokubo for statements he described as treason.
Aliyu was making reference to statements by Asari Dokubo at a media parley in Abuja over the weekend where he was quoted as having said that Nigeria will be in crisis if President Goodluck Jonathan was not re-elected as civilian President for a second term in office because the present peace being enjoyed in the Niger Delta region of the country is because President Jonathan is the President of Nigeria.
Dokubo had said, “The day Goodluck is no longer the President, all of us who are now on sabbatical will come back. There will be no peace, not only in the Niger Delta but everywhere; if they say it is an empty boast let them wait and see.”
Aliyu had while receiving members of the House of Representatives Committee on Education led by Hon. Aminu Sule who paid him a courtesy call at Government House, Minna, on Tuesday described the statement credited to Asari-Dokubo as ‘unfortunate and inciting’, and wondered by now the security agencies hadn’t arrested him for treason.
The governor said “you don’t win election by frightening people and even if you win, the victory will be pyrrhic.”
While asking politicians to advice their supporters to guide their utterances, Governor Aliyu said there were some statements that were capable of fanning embers of disunity in the country.
“We should bring discipline to our politics, we should be a nation of rules.”
Governor Aliyu also said that Nigerians and its leaders should cultivate the habit of respecting its security agencies and give them the support that will make them successful in their assignments commending the security agents for the role they played in restoring peace to Madalla after the 2011 Christmas Day bomb attacks on St. Theresa Catholic Church.
In his remarks, Honourable Sule observed that Nigeria is passing through difficult moments saying that people of goodwill and those that have the interest of the survival of the country should work towards bringing sanity to the polity.
Sule said the House of Representatives will on its part continue to work with people who are genuinely interested in the survival of democracy, adding that “we will always back those who speak the truth for the nation to grow.”
Meanwhile, the House of Representatives on Tuesday directed the Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Abubakar to investigate Presidential adviser on Niger-Delta Amnesty Programme, Mr Kinsley Kuku, and former leader of Niger Delta militants, Alhaji Asari-Dokubo, over alleged reckless statements the duo made on the possible ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015
The lawmakers said that the duo’s statements had the potential of causing disaffection among Nigerians ahead of the 2015 elections
They condemned the duo over the alleged reckless statements and mandated the House committee on Police Affairs and National Security to liaise with the IGP and keep the House abreast with any development on the subject matter.
The House resolution was as a result of a motion moved by Honourable Ali Madaki entitled, “Urgent need to check the utterances of some Nigerians capable of causing disaffection among people in the country.”
The lawmaker recalled that Mr Kuku was reported to have said in far away United States that there would be chaos in the country if President Goodluck Jonathan was not re-elected in 2015, while on the other hand, he claimed that Alhaji Dokubo also said at the weekend that Nigeria would know no peace if President Jonathan was not re-elected for second term.
He was of the opinion that there was urgent need to check the utterances of some Nigerians, saying that, “while Nigerians are fervently praying for peace in Nigeria, some Nigerians are already out sowing seed of discord among people”.
He added that if the trend was not checked, the statements credited to Mr Kuku and Alhaji Dokubo were “capable of creating disunity and disaffection among the good people of Nigeria.”
When the motion was put to vote by the Speaker, Honourable Aminu Tambuwal who presided over the session it was unanimously supported by members.
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