A former Niger Delta militant, Asari Dokubo, on Thursday said his faithfulness to former president Goodluck Jonathan, made him “cut communication” with Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Dokubo hails from Rivers State, while Jonathan is Bayelsan. Both are in the South-South region of Nigeria.
Apart from Tinubu, who recently emerged the presidential flagbearer of the APC, Dokubo said he also cut ties with several other members of the ruling APC – including President Muhammadu Buhari.
“I cut off communication with Tinubu because of Goodluck in 2014,” Dokubo said, in a Facebook Live monitored by this newspaper.
“I was in Mecca for Hajj, with the present Minister for Interior, Rauf Aregbesola. I went to his hotel room to see him, that was in 2013, and he said ‘why are you following Goodluck’? He said Goodluck will not do you anything good. He said, ‘why don’t you stay where you are celebrated?’ All of us celebrate you. And I told him I cannot betray my people. I stood by Goodluck, and cut off friendship with Raid Aregbesola, Adams Oshiomhole, Kayode Fayemi, Tinubu himself, and even President Buhari.”
He added: “Tinubu wanted me to be in politics, I did not. I sacrificed those relationships for my people and I’m not regretting it.”
