Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima has replied Asari
Dokubo who has in recent times alleged that the missing Chibok girls is
all a scam and the handiwork of the governor. In a statement by
the Governor's spokesperson, Isa Gusau, Shettima described Dokubo
as a jester who no serious minded Nigerian should take serious. The
statement below...
"Governor Shettima is too serious minded to
reply Asari Dokubo who is just a joker as most Nigerians regard him. As
a onetime journalist covering the Niger Delta, I had come in direct
contact with Asari when he organized a rally in support of late Gaddafi
in Port Harcourt and also when he organized the 2011/2012 Isaac Boro
lecture in Port Harcourt which he kept interrupting, taking over the
microphone from people like respected lawyers like Festus Keyamo,
intermittently speaking without protocol and without shame like a child.
He is just a joke, no reasonable Nigerian takes him serious. He was
reported saying Chibok abduction was a sham, I won’t be surprised if by
next week the same Asari Dokubo leads another rally to counter the one
he just held. Last year, Asari was reported speaking against Presidency,
then he changed tune now we don’t know what happened but that is how he
is, he uses the media for personal interest and some sort of blackmail." Continue...
“He wants to be regarded as a hero but I tell you that
no one sees him as such in the Niger Delta that I had covered. He is
trying to force unwilling public to see him different from who he is but
like a say goes, ‘you can fool some people all the time, you can fool
all the people sometime but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Asari dubiously took advantage of Isaac Boro event which attracts
participants to say what he said so that the procession would seem like a
support base for his isolated opinion. I saw some pictures of some
girls in one house displaying some placards, from the faces, I think he
probably assembled some of his immediate and extended family members and
gave them placards. One person wrote on all the cards, the same
writing, all of which look like a sort of Mickey Mouse scene in cartoon
series. How can Governor Shettima reply a jester, how can he respond to
such a play by Asari that falls far below the standard of Nollywood when
he is busy working very hard with all relevant bodies finding ways on
how to secure the freedom of his and Borno’s precious daughters in
captivity?” Gusau said.
Gusau advised the President to distance himself from Asari...
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