Niger-Delta militant leader, Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo has clashed with the leader of defunct Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, over pipeline surveillance contract.
Dokubo said Tompolo had never been involved in Ijaw nor Niger- Delta struggle.
Stakeholders suspect that Dokubo-Asari was angry with Tompolo over the pipeline surveillance contract the Federal Government awarded him, which extended to parts of Rivers state.
In a trending video, Dokubo said: “I cannot even compare myself to Tompolo, it is unimaginable that I will condescend to the level of Tompolo. Who is Tompolo, what is his antecedents, what is his name?
“Who is he, do not allow me open a can of worms, who is Tompolo, which Ijaw struggle is he fighting? He is fighting Itsekiri people calling it Ijaw struggle and Niger Delta struggle. Is he even involved in Ijaw struggle?
“Fighting war with Itsekiri, do not allow me to talk, he has never been involved in Ijaw struggle. Never. Gbaramatu versus Itsekiri – that is the war he is fighting. He is not even defending other Ijaw people who are fighting, Ogbe-Ijoh has been fighting with Aladja has Tompolo gone there before,” he said.
Vanguard reported that some weeks ago, Tompolo, reportedly reached out to Dokubo and another former ex-militant leader, Ateke Tom, now a king, in Rivers state, but it appears the two Niger-Delta militants have not sorted out the bone of contention.