Northern Groups Warn Asari To Desist From Insulting Northerners.

Some Northern groups have risen to the defence of their political and religious leaders and warned the leader of the Niger Delta Volunteer Force, Alhaji Asari Dokubo, to desist from making uncomplimentary remarks against them. 

  The groups, Arewa Citizens Action for Change (ACAC) and Arewa Youth Development Foundation (AYDF), also urged President Goodluck Jonathan to call him to order.   In a statement issued yesterday by ACAC Director, Mallam Aminu Adam, and AYDF National President, Mallam Ali Usman, groups said they “have observed with great concern the persistent, unrestrained verbal attacks on the generality of the people of Northern Nigeria and their interests by Ijaw community’s trouble-shooter, Asari Dokubo.”  

According to them, “most recently, Dokubo, perhaps emboldened by government’s backing, has graduated to attacking the revered Sultan of Sokoto, the distinguished Emir of Kano and respected leaders like Generals Muhammadu Buhari and Ibrahim Babangida, and also our great politicians, Atiku Abubakar and Lawal Kaita”. 

  “We feel obliged to respond and to warn him to desist forthwith from uttering further uncomplimentary remarks against the north, its leaders, elders and people by reminding him that both he and his paymasters do not have monopoly of the apparatus of rascality.”   “While we join our brothers in urging the northern elders not to respond to utterances by Asari, we still warn him that we are equal to the task of protecting the interest of every northerner and ready to take on him anytime.”