Asari Dokubo, an ex-militant commander, came under fire from the Indigenous People of Biafra on Sunday for his counsel to President Bola Tinubu on Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
The organisation denounced Dokubo’s request that the president refuse to free the arrested pro-Biafran leader Kanu, claiming that he was pandering to the crowd in order to secure an oil deal.
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The group emphasised that Dokubo was playing to the crowd by attempting to curry favour with the Federal Government and secure a “oil guard” contract using the name of Kanu as bait.
In a statement released on Sunday by IPOB’s spokesperson, Emma Powerful, the pro-Biafran group attacked Dokubo for plotting to win a contract to safeguard infrastructure and oil pipelines.
Powerful said;
Dokubo and others are campaigning for the continuous detention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in DSS solitary confinement but they forgot that militancy for monetary gains is in the same category as criminals and terrorists.
IPOB is not in the league of militants and oil pipeline guards. IPOB stands for freedom for Biafrans including those on oil pipeline security guards for the oppressors. It’s unfortunate that those who are supposed to be in the decision-making of the oil explorations in their region are guarding the oil pipelines for the oppressors and their children.
Those bent on killing each other for the oil pipeline contracts are in the same way bent on sabotaging those fighting to liberate them from decades of slavery.
The IPOB spokesman further advised Dokubo to desist from using Kanu’s “illegal detention” to look for an oil guard contract, adding that Kanu has not destroyed any oil infrastructure nor has he killed anyone.
