We​’ll resume our struggle if Buhari 'draws first blood' - Asari Dokubo

Ex-Niger Delta militant, Asari Dokubo says he and other
militants will resume their struggle for the region should the
Buhari administration "draw the first Blood". Asari said this
while speaking at the Annual Major Isaac Adaka Boro’s
Memorial Public Event which held yesterday May 17th.
"Yes, a new government begins in Nigeria and a next
phase of our struggle shall begin also. Jonathan Goodluck
Presidency was like a restraining order now that restraint
is lifted. However, we will watch and wait, let them draw
the first blood and we shall determine our best way
forward. Truly Nigeria will never be the same again the
future is pregnant.
Should Buhari whom like pharaoh has determined in his
heart to turn desolate the Niger Delta region, draw the
first blood by undermining certain interest of the region
then begin the systemic arrest, maiming and murder our
comrades, continue the confiscation of our rights to self-
determination and treat the region as a conquered
region, then it may be honourable for some of us to die
in prison or in the field of war as nobody is afraid of
him. Let it be known that we were not defeated. It was
Jonathan and his party that lost an election. We as a
people, indeed the Niger Delta region alongside the Igbos
were never defeated. We collectively rejected the born to
rule and supremacist agenda which some of our brothers
as field slaves and taskmasters supported yet their
number shows that they are of little consequence, we
must however not take them for granted"he said
According to him, their struggle and agitation was never
about to become the President of Nigeria but about freedom
from what he described as "false and forced colonial union"
"He, Jonathan Goodluck, was never in the struggle. He was
not a product of the struggle but an establishment
beneficiary of our struggle. Our struggle is not and never
about becoming the president. It was not about being
awarded oil licenses and mouth-watering contracts. It was
not about massive infrastructural development of the Niger
Delta Region. It was not about high scale appointments
employment and empowerment. It was never about
interventionist programmes and projects. Our struggle
indeed is about our collective freedom from a false and
forced colonial union that has remained divided and un-
integrated. It is about our being conferred a slave status and
seen as a conquered people who must exist at the mercy of
the overloads and supremacist class using our own brothers
as taskmasters against us in a Nigerian union. Our status in
the Nigerian enterprise remains that of a conquered people
living a slave and prisoners status. This is the collective
identity we have as a people. Whether you are rich, poor,
high, low, big, mighty or small, no matter how well dressed,
well fed a slave or a prisoner his, he remains a slave and a
prisoner who constantly lives at the mercy and dictates of
others with his contributions and consent of no
consequence. This is why we must now than ever stand up
like the Scottish to determine our going forward for our
platforms and reject our oppressors. This will not come
easy"he said.