Religious Life

Alhaji Mujahid Abubakr Dokubo-Asari has always been religious coming from a highly religious and moral background. His paternal grand mother Princess Okukuba Wilkinson Dokubo Goodhead who he lived with was a committed member of Akasabiangha, Elijah Teke   and a confirmed and communion member of the St. Micheal’s Anglican Church. Alhaji Dokubo-Asari was sent briefly to live with his Uncle Mr. Amachree who was a member of the Seven Day Adventist Church who taught him the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. But Alhaji Dokubo-Asari took after his mother who was a born Baptist and became staunch Baptist playing active roles in the Youth and the Royal Ambassadors.  He later converted to Pentecostalism and became a member of deeper life and the Student Christian Movement (SCM) an organization which he served as President in the Baptist School. Before his entrance into the University, he lost faith in Christianity because of the invasion of the Palestine Refugee Camps in Lebanon by the racist Zionist Israeli Army and its attendant’s massacre. The Local Christians for a long time have supported Zionist Israel. Even his own church, the Deeper Life Ministry was a staunch supporter of Israel believing that the state of Israel is a fulfillment of biblical prophecy.

Dokubo-Asari wrote a letter to Pastor Kumuyi complaining about the massacre and advancing that any God who permits such a massacre is a wicked and unjust God. Because of the answer given to him by Kumuyi that no body can question God, Dokubo-Asari denounced religion and became a Marxist. Before then, Dokubo-Asari has attempted to form his own religion Godism which he postulates that God is one and indivisible. This belief brought him very close to Islam though he had no knowledge of Islam at that time. Alhaji Dokubo-Asari’s first attempt at becoming a Moslem was in 1982, when he visited the 15/16 Victoria Street, Yoruba Central Mosque and the answers given to his question were not satisfactory so he left. Because of his early religious training, he could not erase God from his mind, so he returned back to the Baptist Church. On his admission into the University, he became more interested in Marxism even though he still attended church. On the 17^th of September 1988, after exhaustive study of virtually every religion, he converted to Islam and changed his name first to Jihad Abubakr Dokubo-Asari at the Bokobiri Mosque in Calabar. After becoming a Moslem, he decided to travel round the west African Sub region with only Sixty Eight Naira in his hand, he decide to travel from Calabar to Makurdi, Makurdi to Jos, From Jos he had a stop over at Saminaka, from Saminaka to Kaduna, Kaduna to Zaria, Zaria to Kano, Kano to Sokoto where he met with his cousin, the late captain Harry and proceeded to Sokoto passing through Shagari to Jega, Jega to Kotangora, Kontagonra to Illorin and Illorin to Ibadan where he met most of his friends including Alhaji Ishaq Kunle Sanni his mentor and best friend whose family became Alhaji Dokubo-Asari’s second family. Today most of Alhaji’s children and wife Hajia Zainab Duoye Dokubo-Asari are at Ibadan. As a Moslem, Alhaji became Amir of Moslem Students Society (MSS) of Rivers State University Of Science and Technology Rivers Area Unit, and the coordinator of Rivers State quaranic recitation competition, President Jamatul Islamiya, President Ijaw Moslem Congress, member of the General Assembly of the supreme council of Islamic affairs, member of the sub committee on strategy and research and also a member of general Assembly of the southern grand council for Islamic Affairs in Nigeria. Alhaji Dokubo-Asari has attended several conferences both local and international; he can read the Quoran and other Islamic books in the Arabic scripts. He has gone on pilgrimage to Mecca for about twelve times. He is an unapologetic admirer of Osama Bin Laden. He has met and studied under several notable sheikhs and Islamic scholars amongst whom are Sheikh Mahmud Gumi, Sheikh Ahmad Abdul-Fahti, Sheikh Almiskin, Sheikh Ibrahim Saleh, Sheikh Usman Gamboru, Sheikh Adiyatullah, Professor Noibi, Sheikh Ahmed Lemu, Sheikh Abdul Quadir Orire, Sheikh Adams Idoku and others. He also has close contacts with radical Islamists scholars like Sheikh Ibrahim Alzakizaki, Mohammad Turi and others. Alhaji Dokubo-Asari has become a pillar of strength to the Ijaw and the south-south Moslems.

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