NEF Member Urges DSS To Question Asari Dokubo Over Claims

Solomon Dallung, representative of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), urged the Nigerian security to go after President Goodluck Jonathan’s close associates, including Dokubo Asari, instead of troubling the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Speaking with The Nation in Kaduna, Dallung said that the Department of State Services (DSS) had deviated from being a national security agency. According to the NEF member, if they hadn’t, they would have moved against members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with their much more dangerous statements than those by the opposition.

It would be recalled that the APC was threatened by the security with the arrests over inflammatory statement jeopardizing peace in Nigeria ahead of the February elections.

According to Dallung however, there are much more dangerous claims, coming not from the opposition. See his point of view below:

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“When Dokubo Asari said there would be war in Nigeria if President Jonathan loses the 2015 elections, instead of being arrested or invited by the SSS, he was celebrated in the Presidential Villa.

“Again, during the Nyanya bomb blast, before the arrival of the security agencies, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Olisa Metuh, said the APC was responsible for the bombing. Such statements are quite inflammatory as well.

“When you talk about inflammatory statements, the presidential media man and the presidential image makers have made more inflammatory statements than any other Nigerian.  

“So, if the Department of State Security is interested in maintaining national security, it should start its investigation from the presidential aides and then the Publicity Secretary of the PDP, before getting to the APC.

“But, unfortunately, the DSS has not behaved like a national security agency. It is behaving like an agency of a political party. They only go out to warn people when they are not members of the PDP or members of Jonathan’s government.

“A member of Jonathan government can make any statement. Imagine what Dokubo Asari said: ‘if Jonathan does not win the election the country will go up in flame.’ And he walked into the Presidential Villa celebrated.

“So, the SSS should know that they owe the country a responsibility to protect national security and not security of a political party or any particular government.”

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It is worth mentioning however that end of December Prof. Tam David-West, a former Minister of Petroleum, cautioned Dokubo Asari, who said that Jonathan had already won the elections, against making provocative statements.