Asari Dokubo, the author of the popular saying “70 years old man” has contributed richly, to making skit comedy more interesting. It might not have been his intent when he was sending out the video he sent out years ago, but it has become one of the most influential videos in nowadays comedy outings, as it goes beyond just Nigeria.
If you have watched several Nigerian comedy skits in the past few years, it might be obvious that some background expressions in those skits aren’t new to you, some like “You want to displease yourself and please others“, but we won’t be surprised if you didn’t know the author. It’s not a crime if you didn’t know, we’re here for that.
Dokubo Asari, 57, an ex-millitant and Nigerian politician, now turned Beninois is known for advocating against the Nigerian government. In a popular video, he addressed some Nigerians, including President Goodluck Jonathan, in a hilarious manner that got many off their seats.
In his political outburst of a few years ago where many of these comic expressions are being extracted, he blasted the likes of veteran Nigerian Singer Charly Boy for championing a protest against President Buahari. Charly Boy didn’t buy Asari’s Biafran-Independence idea, so it got both at loggerheads.
This made the former angry and had Charly boy in his bad record books, that’s why he was filled with so much Joy, when Charly was tear-gassed “them tear-gassam, im pass out, 70 years old man”
“Your mumu na yi too much, you think say you too wise, now they’ve left you behind” he added.
He also blasted his cousin David Tam-West, saying Tam-West went to jail for a cup of tea and a wrist watch, and later came out, galavanting all over the place.
He went further, in the same video, to water down former petroleum minister, Dieziani Allison, calling her “Fooolish” for depriving the Ijaw people of the oil that was due to them. According to him, the minister sold a property, that belonged to their people, and used it to feed her family, while leaving the people of this area to suffer. He mocked the former minister, reminding her that she has been abandoned by the people she had favored while she was in power.
Although Asari is no longer lives Nigeria, he remains one of the most radical Nigerian citizens of his generation. His activism and fights for Biafra goes a long way back. In the same video when he was addressing his fellow country men, he considered to have been lured by greed, he said “Nigeria is not for us. How many times will I tell you people that Nigeria is not for us” ?
His idea of wanting the IJaw people and the Delta state, a separate country from Nigeria might not have been a good idea to many, but his contributions to the Nigerian political sphere cannot be ignored. He has somehow become a source of inspiration to many comedians nowadays.
