According to a Publication By This Day News, The leader of the Niger Delta Peoples
Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Asari-
Dokubo, has said the Movement for the
Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) is a
faceless organisation which no longer existed
as far as the struggle for people’s
emancipation in the region is concerned.
Speaking against the background of the
controversial statement issued last week by
MEND endorsing the candidacy of the
presidential candidate of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari
(rtd), the former militant leader described the
acronym, MEND, as a pseudonym being used
by the imprisoned Henry Okah to deceive
ignorant persons.
Asari Dokubo also said the name, Gbomo
Jomo, who always signed statements on
behalf of MEND, was not known to belong to
any nationality in the Niger Delta region.
“Our people say birds of a same feather flock
together, it is not strange that this
organisation is endorsing Buhari. First, I
have always maintained that there is nothing
like MEND.
“When I was in prison, the organisation I
lead, NDPVF, the NDPSF and other
organisations came together to stop arrest
and they formed a faceless organisation,
some guys, including Henry Okah, were sent
to me in Kuje prison for us to get a name
and my opinion on what they were going to
do, I accepted though majority of members of
NDPV resisted it, I told them that we should
be faceless and so they formed MEND.
“General Taminu was supposed to be the
head, but it does not exist, Alaibe was
supposed to be secretary, it does not exist.
Gbomo Jomo, which is not a name known to
any nationality in the Niger Delta does not
exist,” he said.
On the allegation made by President
Goodluck Jonathan that Henry Okah planned
to assassinate him, Dokubo said: “What the
president said is belated. The president had
known since 2007 that Henry Okah wanted to
kill him. For saying it, it is the fault of Ijaw
leaders including Chief E.K Clark who have
been sweeping this thing, it under the carpet.
And one day, the debris under the carpet will
become too much that the carpet will be
undulated.
“Now, it is undulated, the stench is coming
out and the President could no longer hold it.
He has now come out to say Henry Okah
wanted to assassinate him which was true.
Henry even said the President and myself are
not Ijaw people.
He debunked media reports credited to him
that he was going to invade Yoruba land,
saying “There was no such statement.
Everybody knows that when I make a
statement, I own up to it. There is no such
thing. I never made it. You know, a lot of
times, they ascribe a lot of things to me.”
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