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Iheanyi Chukwudi
Niger Delta warlord, Asari Dokubo, has been warned to desist henceforth from attacking the Igbo.
Leadership of the Movement for Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) who handed the warning on Thursday said Dokubo should wake up from his unrealistic dreams and face realities.
While berating Dokubo for his recent remarks where he called Ndigbo slaves and conquered people by Kalahari and Ijaw tribe, MASSOB asked former Niger Delta agitator to desist from his "unnecessary and unachievable" attacks against Ndigbo, insisting that he will never succeed.
MASSOB described Dokubo's statement as a ranting of a drowning man, noting that the unwarranted verbal attack on Ndigbo by him has woken the lion spirit and bravery in Ndigbo.
Addressing Dokubo in statement on Thursday, MASSOB Leader, Uchenna Madu said, "In the traditional history of conquest, warfare and bravery, of Ndigbo and Ijaw people, it is on record that Ijaw people with their allies have never achieved seven per cent of the conquest, dominion and domination of what Ndigbo have achieved both in pre colonial era and in this modern era.
"Asari Dokubo in his bourgeois stupidity forget that it was Ndigbo that stopped the British colonial rulers from changing and deleting the native names and cultural heritages of Ijaw people during the conquest of the British colonial adventure.
"How can a prodigal son whose known grandfather with some kinsmen from Abam town in Abia state of Igbo land conquered Dokubo Asari"s Kalahari community where he is still claiming his origination will turn and say that the Kalahari community Ndigbo conquered and still dominating their economic and social lives is our master.
"Dokubo Asari have once again proved his low mentality and puff puff nature. That Ijaw people are neighbors to Ndigbo and that Ndigbo treat them as brothers and sisters does not warrant competing with Ndigbo in every spheres of life both nationally and globally. Even the Hausa, Yoruba and Fulani generally sees the Ijaw people as extension of Ndigbo from Eastern region."
His statement further reads, "MASSOB reminds Dokubo Asari that no amount of his loyalty and errand boyish services to Yoruba, Hausa and Fulani of biased Nigeria will make him a hero or accord him celebrated recognition because the federal government hate Ijaws more than Ndigbo."
Madu however, said that Ndigbo, irrespective of Dokubo's irresponsibility, still respect elderly statesmen from Ijaw land including Chief Edwin Clerk and former President Goodluck Jonathan.
He added, "We still recognize Ijaw people as our brothers subjected in the same British created artificial entity called Nigeria."
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