Chibok girls: Gov Shettima replies Asari Dokubo, calls him a jester

Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima has replied Asari Dokubo who has in recent times alleged
that the missing Chibok girls is all a scam and the handiwork of the governor. In a statement by the
Governor's spokesperson, Isa Gusau, Shettima described Dokubo as a jester who no serious minded
Nigerian should take serious. The statement below...
"Governor Shettima is too serious minded to reply Asari Dokubo who is just a joker as most
Nigerians regard him. As a onetime journalist covering the Niger Delta, I had come in direct
contact with Asari when he organized a rally in support of late Gaddafi in Port Harcourt and
also when he organized 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." Continue...
“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. Asari dubiously took advantage of
Isaac Boro event which attracts participants to say what he said so that the procession would
seem like a support base for his isolated opinion. I saw some pictures of some girls in one house
displaying some placards, from the faces, I think he probably assembled some of his immediate
and extended family members and gave them placards. One person wrote on all the cards, the
same writing, all of which look like a sort of Mickey Mouse scene in cartoon series. How can
Governor Shettima reply a jester, how can he respond to such a play by Asari that falls far
below the standard of Nollywood when he is busy working very hard with all relevant bodies
finding ways on how to secure the freedom of his and Borno’s precious daughters in captivity?”
Gusau said.
Gusau advised the President to distance himself from Asari...