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Biafra: Don’t take Dokubo serious –Wike

• Says Port Harcourt refinery rehabilitation’s $1.5bn approval political 

19th March 2021
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From Tony John, Port Harcourt and George Onyejiuwa, Owerri 

Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said nobody should take former Ijaw Youth Council leader, Asari Dokubo, serious on the formation of the Biafra Customary Government.

Wike, who noted that anyone who knew the antecedents of Dokubo would not take him serious, urged the Nigerian media to stop giving coverage to the activities of the likes of Dokubo and focus on more pressing challenges facing the nation.

The governor also described the approval of $1.5 billion for the rehabilitation of Port Harcourt refinery as political and that no one should jubilate.

The governor, who stated this during a television interview, said people ought to bear in mind that there was a different between mere approval and actual release of money for projects.

He said ahead of the 2023 elections, so many promises and approvals would be made by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government to hoodwink gullible Nigerians that the country is being taken to Eldorado.

“I am not going to jubilate because the Federal Government said it has approved $1.5 billion for the rehabilitation of Port Harcourt refinery. Thank God the government said so, but let us wait and see the outcome of it at the end of the day,” he said.

The governor described, as unacceptable, a situation where all the refineries in the Niger Delta region, which is the hub of the oil and gas industry, are not functioning.

Wike said: “We have had these promises and nothing has happened. And so, I don’t want to start to sing hallelujah. Let us wait and see based on the approval and the statement made by the minister of State for Petroleum. We will hold him accountable to it.”

Governor Wike said before the APC-led government assumed office in 2015, the party had promised to fix the refineries.  He wondered how the government, which now has barely two years to the end of its tenure, can fix the refineries it neglected since 2015.

He said: “They said, Nigerians, if you give us (APC) the opportunity to remove Peoples Democratic Party (P{DP) government that told you refinery will work, we are going to make it (refinery) work. And since 2015, it has not worked. Now, we are going to the next transition, you are now coming to tell Nigerians you have made this approval. The same thing in Ogoni clean up. It has always come up when we are going for election.”

On the utilisation of the 13 percent derivation fund, the governor said no former South South governor, particularly those that served between 2007 and 2015 could equal the achievements recorded by the state government under his watch.

Meanwhile, Leader/Founder of the Biafra Independent Movement/Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (BIM-MASSOB), Ralph Uwazuruike, has thrown his weight behind the Leader of Biafra de Facto Customary Government, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo. Uwazuruike said his emergence was a manifestation of their concerted efforts at reconciling different pro-Biafra groups towards achieving greater harmony against their common enemy.

He also hailed Dokubo for toeing the line of non-violence agreement in the crusade for the emancipation struggle of the people of Biafra.

In a statement signed on his behalf by the Biafra Director of Information/Senior Special Assistant to the president on Media and Publicity, Chris Mocha, Uwazuruike said commitments and efforts of Dokubo are commendable and deeply appreciated.

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