By Baba Yusuf
Abuja
The Special Adviser on Communications to Governor Kashim Shettima and spokesman, Isa Gusau, yesterday said the governor would not trade words with a jester like ex-Niger Delta militant leader, Asari Dokubo.
Gusau spoke in reaction to media reports yesterday quoting Dokubo to have alleged that no girl was abducted in Chibok and that the governor and his party staged a political scam on the kidnap to hit at President Goodluck Jonathan ahead off 2015 elections.
He said: “Governor Shettima is too serious minded to reply Asari Dokubo who is just a joker as most Nigerians regard him. As a one-time journalist covering the Niger Delta I had come in direct contact with Asari when he organised a rally in support of late Gaddafi in Port Harcourt.
“And also when he organised the 2011/2012 Isaac Boro lecture in Port Harcourt which he kept interrupting, taking over the microphone from people like respected lawyers like Festus Keyamo, intermittently speaking without protocol and without shame like a child.
“He is just a joke; no reasonable Nigerian takes him serious. He was reported saying Chibok abduction was a sham. I won’t be surprised if by next week the same Asari Dokubo leads another rally to counter the one he just held. Last year, Asari was reported speaking against Presidency, then he changed tune now we don’t know what happened but that is how he is, he uses the media for personal interest and some sort of blackmail.”
Continuing, he said: “He wants to be regarded as a hero but I tell you that no one sees him as such in the Niger Delta that I had covered. He is trying to force unwilling public to see him different from who he is but like a say goes, ‘you can fool some people all the time, you can fool all the people sometime but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
