•Asari-Dokubo’s wife and children Photo: Sun News Publishing

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In the family, everyone refers to her as “Daddy’s Baby” and it does not take any visitor long to confirm how close she is to embattled local militia leader, Alhaji Mujahid Asari-Dokubo currently in detention.

And if you think that her young age would have robbed her of a sound knowledge of what is happening around her especially when her “Daddy” is concerned, you are dead wrong.

Six-year-old Hajia Habiba Asari-Dokubo sure knows that the authorities are stubbornly standing between her and her first love and she is so sad about it.

“I miss my daddy. Yes, I miss him very very very much”, she told Daily Sun at their Port Harcourt home, nodding her head each time she pronounced, “very” in apparent show of emphasis. She has threatened to “cry and will never stop crying” if they refuse to release him.

The moving and revealing brief ‘interview’ went thus:

Where is your daddy?
“My daddy is in Abuja, in detention”.

Who told you he is in detention?
“I know it myself. Don’t you see he is not here with us?”

Do you miss him?
“I miss my daddy. Yes. I miss him very very very much. He used to buy me things like clothes and shoes. He used to take me to Mr. Biggs.

“I want them to release my daddy from detention. If they refuse, I will cry and cry. I missed him during this Sallah festival. Every other child had his daddy to take him out but my daddy was not there to take me and my brother out”.

Who is keeping your daddy in Abuja?
“It is the governor of Rivers State that is keeping my daddy in Abuja. It is him, SSS and President Obasanjo.

They should release my daddy otherwise, I will cry and I will never stop crying. My brother and I want our daddy. They should please release him so that he can come home and play with us”.