Breaking: Popular Nigerian political figure, Asari Dokubo, raises alarm on assassination threats

  • Asari Dokubo, a former militant leader in the Niger Delta, has said he is being threatened with death
  • Dokubo said the death threats mostly come in the form of Short Message Service (SMS), and the volume is enormous
  • Dokubo has been in the storm after stale videos of him talking tough against a particular Nigerian ethnic group surfaced online

Awka, Anambra state – Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, an Ijaw activist, has said that he has received many messages from some Nigerians who threatened to eliminate him over his positions on socio-political issues.

Speaking in a Facebook Live on Sunday, July 2, monitored by Legit.ng, Dokubo-Asari said those who send such messages to him try to frighten him with cannibalism.