Stoning Of Goodluck In Katsina..We Shall Retaliate...Asari Dokubo

Former Niger Delta warlord, Alhaji Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, yesterday served a reprisal notice for the attack on President Goodluck Jonathan’s convoy during a campaign in Katsina, the Katsina State capital. He told reporters in Abuja that Jonathan’s kinsmen in the Niger Delta would not overlook what amounts to an insult on their prominent son. The attack on the president’s convoy by some irate youths on Tuesday, also attracted the attention of the All Progressives Congress (APC), which condemned the action. Ahead of the reprisal he is threatening, Asari- Dokubo warned Igbo living in the North to return home so they would not be caught in the crossfire.

He faulted the Abuja peace accord entered into by Jonathan and the APC presidential candidate, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, with 12 others, saying it was unnecessary. According to him, the oath taken by the president to protect lives and property and to abide by the constitution supersedes such an accord. Asari-Dokubo said the North had the penchant for causing election violence and steps should be taken to discourage that. He said: “There is an established pattern of pre and post-election violence in the North. In the 50s when the late Awolowo was campaigning in the North, he went with helicopters and he was mocked. People said he was flying over the houses and peeping at their wives.
“For every action, there will be an opposite and equal reaction. I knew that the signing of the accord was useless and it is a pity that the president subjected himself to sign such an accord. For me, it was out of place for a president and commander-in-chief of the armed forces of a country. But the president is a humble person.
He does things that even marvel some of us and make us sometimes to be very angry. “So what happened in Katsina State is not a surprise. But don’t be surprised. We are putting the world on notice that they have started first. When we reply, let nobody talk because we are going to reply. We did not sign any accord with them. They did not sign. “Everybody should be bold enough to tell them that the rules of the game have changed. If they slice our throat, we are going to slice their throat. They stoned the president, you will hear from us. That’s the answer.