Ex-Niger-Delta militant leader,
Asari Dokubo, has expressed his disagreement with Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), over his call for the boycott of the 2019
general elections by the Southeast and South-south region.
Dokubo made his views known in a
six minutes video which surfaced on the social media on Monday.
Kanu had over the weekend urged
IPOB supporters and sympathizers in the two geopolitical zones to shun the 2019
general election unless the Federal Government announced a date for Biafra
referendum.
Reacting to the call, Dokubo
argued that heeding Kanu’s advice was suicidal since it would be tantamount to
empowering those opposed to the Biafra aspirations with resources from the
national treasury to frustrate the people’s struggle.
He went further to point out that
pro-independent agitators in Spain, Ireland and Palestine contested elections
and won seats into political offices in a bid to push their agenda rather than
boycott general elections in their respective nations.
His words: “Fellow Biafrans and
compatriots, our goal is the freedom of our motherland. It is not about the
celebration and deification of individuals. It is not about the appropriation
of our collective struggle by an individual, group of individuals or an organisation.
The Biafra struggle is for the freedom of all Biafrans.
“But we have to clear some
misconceptions. These misconceptions is that people who are fighting for
freedom do not get involved in political participations.
“Let us come to the touching
issue of election boycott. It is standing history on its head to say that we
should boycott elections.
“In Catalan, the pro-Catalan
independent party is contesting election even after the imperialists Spanish
government dissolved (Catalan) parliament and government and cancelled
elections. But they still contested and won election and are in power.
“The pro-independent Scottish
party is contesting election; they continue to contest election and control the
government of Scotland.
“The pro-independent Northern
Ireland Party, the Irish Republican Army thought its political wing is
contesting elections.
“Hamas who are pro-independent
parties or organization in Palestine are contesting elections.
“How can you give resources to empower
the hands of the enemies of our struggle? I am not from Anambra state but if we
had gone to vote in Anambra, Obiano would not be there (as governor).
“Obiano is an enemy of our
people. Today he has sold our land to General Muhammadu Buhari or his double
that is in Aso Rock because I do not believe the man in Aso Rock is General
Muhammadu Buhari.
“When people tell us the truth,
we don’t want to accept. We want to impose our will which is not working and is
anti-our people.
“We frighten our people, run away
from soldiers, we run away from occupation forces, we run away from police. Why
would we do that? Who are we deceiving?
“Finally, no outsider can give us
freedom. They have not done it anywhere. It is we, with our own show of valour
and commitment, can give is freedom.”
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