Ms Annkio Briggs, is a top female Niger Delta activist. She has
decided to threat the path of Asari Dokubo and threaten Nigerians to
either vote for Jonathan in 2015 or their would be no peace in the land.
MUST it be violence for violence?We are human beings and if we continue to sit down and allow a certain group of people to say certain things and laugh it over, then what is happening today is what will happen, then I too can say it and people can laugh over it.
If President Jonathan decides not to contest, then what would you do?
The decision to contest or not to contest is Jonathan’s. If for
instance, the Niger Delta people agree that Jonathan should contest and
he says he is not going to contest, that is his choice. It is his choice
and that is the point I am making which is that it is not the choice of
Kaita or Buhari or anybody to tell Nigerians who to vote for.
As a civil right activist, are you satisfied with the performance of President Goodluck Jonathan?
I am on record of complaining about so many things about Jonathan’s presidency so far, so let people go back and look at those statements.
Are you saying if President Jonathan is defeated in a free and fair election that violence will spring up in the Niger Delta?
As a civil right activist, are you satisfied with the performance of President Goodluck Jonathan?
I am on record of complaining about so many things about Jonathan’s presidency so far, so let people go back and look at those statements.
Are you saying if President Jonathan is defeated in a free and fair election that violence will spring up in the Niger Delta?
It doesn’t matter who is the president as far as Niger Delta people
are concerned, our demands remain our demands. We want to control our
resources, we want to develop ourselves, we own the resources that are
in the Niger Delta, it is on our land. These are the things that we are
talking about. The issue of the Kaiama Declaration still stands. The
things that Adaka Boro fought for still stand. The things that Ken Saro
Wiwa died for which is that they should stop despoiling our environment;
these demands are still there, they are not going to go away whether
Jonathan is there or not.
But President Jonathan has not addressed them?
If Jonathan addresses the issues he would be accused of addressing his people’s issues. When he does not address it he would be accused of not addressing it. So what is it that we want this Jonathan to do now? He is one man!
What is it that we want him to do? We say he is not addressing insecurity in the north, so we now are making sure that his issue is not insecurity in the Niger Delta and people are saying that he has not addressed this and he has not addressed that. If we also get up and put fire on Jonathan, then you will see what will happen. The output of oil will be reduced. See, there is no point pretending, there is no point in being afraid, these are things that must be said and they are being said now…
But President Jonathan has not addressed them?
If Jonathan addresses the issues he would be accused of addressing his people’s issues. When he does not address it he would be accused of not addressing it. So what is it that we want this Jonathan to do now? He is one man!
What is it that we want him to do? We say he is not addressing insecurity in the north, so we now are making sure that his issue is not insecurity in the Niger Delta and people are saying that he has not addressed this and he has not addressed that. If we also get up and put fire on Jonathan, then you will see what will happen. The output of oil will be reduced. See, there is no point pretending, there is no point in being afraid, these are things that must be said and they are being said now…
Source: Vanguard
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