By Brave Dickson
The leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, Alhaji Dokubo Asari has been crowned as the INABIOBUARI 11, meaning he is now the paramount ruler of the Edi Abali Group of Houses in Kalabari Kingdom.
His coronation took place on Saturday at the King Amachree Hall, Buguma in Asari Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State.
THiNGS TO KNOW ABOUT ASARI:
Got converted to Islam in the 80s, Asari spent much of the 1990s attempting to become involved in regional politics, running for two offices in Rivers State in 1992 and 1998.
In 1998, the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) was formed and Asari, as a founding member, was appointed to the vice-presidency of the organization. The organization issued the Kaiama Declaration in November.
Asari became the IYC president in 2001 and led the group to pursue an agenda of “Resource Control and Self Determination By Every Means Necessary”.
By 2004, Asari had retreated from public view and went on to create the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force (NDPVF).
He was charged to court under the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo for taking up arms against the Nigerian government in his fight for resource control.
The case got to the supreme court and no conviction was made on him by the apex court and he also did not accept the amnesty offer granted to the Niger Delta agitators by late president Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.
