Mr Dokubu, a former Niger Delta militant, had claimed in the past that his forefathers were Igbos.
A former Niger Delta Militant, Asari Dokubo, has been filmed brandishing an AK-47 rifle and threatening to kill all Igbos, an ethnic group predominant in Nigeria’s South-east.which has now gone viral on various social media platforms, Mr Dokubo was heard calling the Igbos “slaves”, whom he said he would have continued to “sell” if not for the intervention of the British government.
But the former militant leader, who spoke on varied issues, would later end up making ethnic slurs against the Igbos, believed to be major supporters of the LP candidate. “E be like say una dey look for who go finish una? Look for una everywhere finish una. Una dey see me?” he stated in Pidgin English.
“I am an Ijaw man. I have never chosen to renounce my citizenship of Ijaw Nation. Abonnema is Biafra, Buguma is Biafra, Bakana is Biafra, Ogbuma is Biafra, Kula is Biafra, Abise is Biafra, Idama is Biafra, Soku is Biafra. These are the communities that I come from. The whole of Ijaw is Biafra. Biafra is a coastal region,” he stated.Reacting, a pro-Biafran group, the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra , has criticised Mr Dokubo for his comments.
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