A group known as the Ijaw National Congress alleged on Friday that President Bola Tinubu is not neutral in the ongoing crisis in Rivers State, News About Nigeria reports.
According to the group, the President is supporting the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike which is why he has failed to caution him.
This was said by the President of the Ijaw National Congress, Prof. Benjamin Okaba, when he led hundreds of Ijaw youths on a solidarity march to the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara.
During the solidarity march, Okaba also alleged that the president’s support for the immediate past governor of Rivers State fueled the ongoing crisis.
According to him, for the president to remain quiet while his minister is causing havoc in Rivers State shows clearly that he is in support of what Wike is doing.
Okaba also accused President Tinubu of marginalising the Ijaw Nation, regardless of the fact that they are hosting oil resources and installations that sustain Nigeria.
He further lamented that, in Delta State, where three people were picked for a federal appointment, none were from the Ijaw nation.
Okaba, therefore, called on President Tinubu to settle the crisis in Rivers State and to also stop the marginalisation against the Ijaw people, threatening that if Tinubu’s administration continues to take them for granted, “a day shall tell whether the Ijaw people are still those who will say a thing and make it come to pass or not.”
On the ongoing Rivers state crisis and attempts to impeach Governor Fubara, he warned that such a move to further “close up or remove Siminalayi Fubara from office is a call for fire.”
