Asari Dokubo, a former Niger Delta militant, has disclosed that All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Bola Tinubu asked him to join the ruling party in 2014.
Dokubo stated that he was unable to join the party before the 2015 general elections due to his loyalty to former President Goodluck Jonathan and the South-South region.
According to InsightnaijaTV, the former militant revealed this during a Facebook Live on Wednesday evening.
During a meeting in Mecca, Saudi Arabia in 2013, he said that the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, sought to persuade him to join the ruling APC and leave Jonathan.
In 2014, the former militant confessed that he had to break up with Tinubu because of Goodluck.
He also said that he had severed connections with Aregbesola, Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi, Adams Oshiomhole, the former APC National Chairman, and President Muhammadu Buhari.
Dokubo, on the other hand, claimed that he sacrificed those ties for his people and that he had no regrets.
He said: “I cut off communication with Tinubu because of Goodluck in 2014.
“I was in Mecca for Hajj, with the present Minister for Interior, Rauf Aregbesola. I went to his hotel room to see him, that was in 2013, and he said ‘why are you following Goodluck’?
“He said Goodluck will not do you anything good. He said, ‘why don’t you stay where you are celebrated?’ All of us celebrate you. And I told him I cannot betray my people. I stood by Goodluck, and cut off friendship with Rauf Aregbesola, Adams Oshiomhole, Kayode Fayemi, Tinubu himself, and even President Buhari.”
“Tinubu wanted me to be in politics, I did not. I sacrificed those relationships for my people and I’m not regretting it.”
