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If Gold Belongs to the North, Then Oil Belongs to Us — Dokubo’s Statement Rips the Mask off Nigeria’s Resource Fraud

Wisdom Tide/January 31rd, 2026

Former Niger Delta militant leader Asari Dokubo has said out loud what Nigeria has spent decades lying about — and the truth is ugly.

If gold belongs to the North, then oil belongs to the Niger Delta. Period.

Dokubo’s declaration is not rhetoric. It is an indictment of a country built on selective justice, economic robbery, and institutionalized hypocrisy. Nigeria has perfected a system where one region bleeds so others can live comfortably, and then calls it “national unity.”

A Country of Two Rules

When gold is discovered in Northern Nigeria, it is celebrated as regional blessing. No soldiers. No occupation. No emergency rule. No criminalization of host communities.

But when oil is discovered in the Niger Delta, the story changes instantly. The land is seized. The waters are poisoned. The people are silenced at gunpoint. And the wealth is hauled off to Abuja under the lie of “federal ownership.”

Dokubo’s message is blunt: Nigeria only believes in federal ownership when the resource is not in Northern hands.

That is not federalism. That is economic conquest.

Oil Is Not a National Gift — It Is Niger Delta Blood

Nigeria did not build itself. Niger Delta oil built Nigeria. Every expressway, every airport, every government salary, every political campaign is paid for by crude oil drilled from the swamps of the South-South.

Yet the people who produce this wealth live among oil spills, gas flares, dead rivers, and mass unemployment. Their environment is destroyed beyond repair, while the beneficiaries debate unity from air-conditioned offices.

Dokubo’s words cut through the lies:

“Our land is sacrificed so others can live well.”

This is not neglect. It is deliberate exploitation.

The Biggest Lie in Nigeria’s Constitution

The claim that oil belongs to the federal government is, according to Dokubo, the greatest economic scam in Nigerian history.

Before oil, Nigeria survived on regional resource control. Cocoa built the West. Groundnuts sustained the North. Palm produce financed the East. Nobody demanded that cocoa or groundnuts be handed over to the centre.

The moment oil was found in the Niger Delta, the rules were rewritten.

Ownership was centralized. Derivation was slashed. Host communities were erased from the equation.

Not because it was right — but because it was convenient.

Guns for the Delta, Silence for the Beneficiaries

The Niger Delta did not get development. It got soldiers.

Instead of hospitals — checkpoints. Instead of schools — gunboats. Instead of justice — intimidation.

Multinational oil companies destroy the land without consequences, while youths who protest are labeled criminals and terrorists.

Dokubo calls this what it is: state-sanctioned violence in defense of theft.

“When we speak, we are enemies. When we resist, we are militants. But when they steal, they are patriots.”

A Warning Nigeria Refuses to Hear

Dokubo’s statement is not a negotiation. It is a warning.

You cannot build peace on injustice. You cannot demand loyalty from people you rob. You cannot preach unity while practicing exploitation.

Agitation in the Niger Delta did not fall from the sky. It was created by a system that feeds fat on one region and calls resistance treason.

The Truth Nigeria Hates

If gold can belong to the North, then oil belongs to the Niger Delta.

Anything else is a lie wrapped in a flag.

Until Nigeria dismantles this fraudulent system and returns ownership, control, and dignity to oil-producing communities, the anger will not die. It will only mature.

And history has never been kind to nations that refuse to correct injustice when it is clearly named.