Rivers LG polls: Dokubo-Asari campaigns for AC

Bolaji Ogundele, Port Harcourt - 25.03.2008

LEADER of the Niger Delta militant struggle, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, on Monday stormed Buguma, the headquarters of Asari-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State, canvassing votes for the Action Congress (AC) in the forthcoming local governent election.

Dokubo-Asari, who entered his hometown for the second time since he was released from incarceration, urged people of Buguma and the entire council area to make their votes count for them by not voting for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). According to a statement signed by the state Publicity Secretary of the AC, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, Dokubo-Asari had blamed the crisis in the state, with Buguma as the worst hit, on the PDP.

“No son or daughter of Asari-Toru should waste his or her vote to vote for any PDP candidate whatsoever for any reason after all that the Community was made to suffer over the self-inflicted crisis PDP as a party engineered in the area”, he said.

Dokubo-Asari then offered the AC chairmanship candidate for the local government, Mr. Tedd Princewill, to the people, asking them to disregard alleged threats by the PDP candidate, Mr Ojukaye Flag-Amachree, to disrupt the election.