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Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo, the self-proclaimed leader of the Niger Delta Peoples’ Volunteer Force (NDPVF), was, in the past, a bogeyman to the Nigerian authorities. But now with a new sheriff in town, he is a new bride. Chidi Odinkalu, a lawyer and teacher, looks at the genesis of Dokubo's crisis with the the security…
In 2005 it was unjustified to place Asari and the Niger Delta advocates underneath the law. At the time, the ruling party at the federal level was the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Today, with the All Progressives Congress, APC, in power, it is just as unjustifiable to place Asari and his followers above the law.
On a Friday in July 2005, Bayo Ojo, a Senior Advocate of Nigerian (SAN), quietly absconded from work in an office in Victoria Island, Lagos, from where he functioned then as the president of the Nigerian Bar Association, (NBA). The next working day, a Monday, he turned up in Abuja as President Olusegun Obasanjo’s 4th |
In 2005, it was unjustified to place Asari Dokubo underneath the law. Today, it is just as unjustifiable to place him above the law.
“Life is short. Life is short. Life is short. Make hay while the sun shines. Make hay while the sun shines. Make hay while the sun shines,” the preacher