Asari Dokubo Threatens Igbos With Guns, Sparks Outrage Online

Patrick OdeyJune 21, 2023

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Asari Dokubo, a former Niger Delta militant leader and political activist, has caused a stir on social media after he posted a video of himself brandishing guns and hurling insults at the Igbo-speaking people in Nigeria.

In the video, which was shared by Naija News, Dokubo claimed that he would have been selling the Igbo people to slavery if not for the intervention of the British, just like his father did many years ago.

He accused the Igbo people of being disrespectful and ignorant of their roots, and said that they were looking for trouble in Nigeria. He also mocked them for being killed frequently in different parts of the country.

He said: “You open. You take your leprosy hand to write. Don’t you have respect for the people who bought your father?

“Is it every Calabari that is a Calabari man? Do you know your roots? That you talk to me? You don’t know that people own this Calabari.

“You are law-abiding…Igbos, I don’t know them. I don’t know where they came from. Because I know that if not for British intervention, I will still be selling them. The way my father sold them.

“Now look at you people in Igbo land. Look at how you are dying woto-woto.

“You will do a video to sell that Alhaji has run away. You dey see me? I don’t run.

“Una head no correct. E be like say una dey look for who go finish una.”

Dokubo’s video came shortly after he visited President Bola Tinubu at the presidential villa in Abuja, where he reportedly pledged to help his administration fight oil theft in the Niger Delta region.

Dokubo is the founder of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force (NDPVF), one of the most prominent armed groups in the Niger Delta region. He is also a Muslim convert who changed his name from Melford Dokubo Goodhead Jr. to Mujahid Dokubo-Asari.

His anti-Igbo rant has sparked a lot of reactions on social media, as some Nigerians condemned his utterances and blamed President Tinubu for giving him an audience at the Aso Villa.

See some of the mixed reactions below.

@chi_agozie7 – A Nigerian man is bragging that he could have been selling Nigerians if not for Britain’s intervention… how did we gets here?

@DrJohnBishop – I keep repeating that Slave trade was only made possible because some black men decided to sell their own kind…tueh!

@EstherOkokon3 – This is what actually earned him a place in Aso Rock. My joy is that Igbos are resilient people and can survive anything, no amount of hate can shake them… yak abasi asuk aka ka iso odiong ndito uneghe.

@salmanaudi – Terrible! I am a hausa man from kano, but man my igbo brothers and sisters are being treated like objects in Nigeria. I grew up in Lagos, and now living in the UK ??. They’re my people (igbos) I roll with them. They have right like every other Nigerian. I missed nkechi my ex

@Rega09831412 – This is what happens when u refuse to partner with anyone! Igbo’s were already building a good partnership with the north east and midway west Obi ruined that partnership and now we are in the middle of the Red Sea! LP 78.

@filarge89 – This guy was in Aso Rock a few days back chilling with the president and even had press conference… one Nigeria.

@EtowaMichael – I think at this point it’s now obvious that the igbos are actually the most feared tribe in Nigeria. Bro showing off guns wow.

@femistico – Igbos brought this see finish upon themselves, they want Biafra trying to merge S/S alongside but the S/S dey claim they were not together, now Obi had made them to be ridiculed this much just bcuz he lost an election…what a shame.

@mrchrisbonnie – @OfficialAPCNg led Federal Government of Nigeria are still in contract with a character who openly confessed to being a slave trader just like his father was, and would’ve still been on it, if given a chance. @JoeBiden and @RishiSunak, you see Nigeria y’all in bed with?

@Ngwe_ It is sad that nobody speaks for the Igbo; this kind of insult should not be tolerated. He’s talking about a whole tribe, omo. na S.E political class dey cause all these. No wahala o.

@mattmike324 -One thing Nigerians should learn is that the Igbo nation has been long before Nigeria was created. The Igbo nation has a rich history and culture that deserves respect and recognition.