The Federal Government has described the reported formation of Biafra Customary Government by Alhaji Mujahadin Asari Dokubo as a “theatre of the absurd by a joker seeking attention’’.
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said in Lagos on Monday that the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration will not be distracted by the absurdity.
According to Mohammed, “I am sure you have heard of the theatre of the absurd, that is the best way I can describe it. If Asari Dokubo wants to form and run a fathom government, I think he is free to do so. This administration will not be distracted because we still have a lot to do.
“We are not ready to give any attention or time to a joker like Dokubo who is just looking for attention. We will just take it as one of these entertainment thing. The beauty about Nigeria is that it is never a dull country, you must have one thing or the other to entertain you.”
Dokubo, leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Salvation Force, had in a statement announced himself as the leader of the new Biafra Customary Government.
The announcement was conveyed in a statement by Uche Mefor, a former Deputy leader of the Indigenous People of Buiafra (IPOB) who is now the new Biafran government’s head of information and communications.