The Ijaw National Congress (INC) has questioned President Bola Tinubu over his silence about the inciting remarks made against Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara by Federal Capital Territory Minister Nyesom Wike.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, INC stated in a statement on Monday that it was odd that Wike and his supporters were determined to see that Fubara was impeached despite earlier interventions by Tinubu and other important stakeholders. The statement was signed by INC President Benjamin Okaba.
The group also questioned Wike’s ability to disparage and incite Fubara without fear of repercussions from President Tinubu and the security services.
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The leading pan-Ijaw socio-cultural association applauded Fubara for his composed and mature demeanour in the face of Wike’s taunts and provocations, saying that such behaviour is indicative of a civilised leader and statesman. However, it also urged Tinubu to step in once more to resolve the problem.
The Ijaw leader said, “Mr President, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, we implore you once again to call Mr Wike and those Federal Government agencies and agents who are putting Rivers State at risk of anarchy, to order. Such elements are inimical to the stability of Nigeria sooner or later.
“Mr Wike has also featured on several network TV stations where he made very provocative statements and scandalous claims against Governor Fubar,; accusing the governor of attempting to ‘take over’ his ‘structure’, openly taunting him as an ingrate who is lacking in integrity as well as asserting without investigation that the governor masterminded the burning down of the hallowed chamber of the Rivers State House of Assembly.
“Is Mr Wike at liberty to make scandalous, libellous and inciting comments without fear of sanction from the security agencies or even Mr President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu?
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“Is Wike the C-in-C of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, such that those on national assignments in Rivers State now act according to his whims and caprices or those he supports, in the push to impeach or make Rivers State ungovernable for His Excellency Governor Siminialayi Fubara, as he publicly boasted? As we glean from history, can law-abiding citizens suffer such intolerable lawlessness orchestrated by one man, indefinitely?
“We, therefore, submit to Mr President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu that Ijaw National Congress Worldwide, its affiliate bodies, substructures and activists are direly concerned by the impunity and indecorous conduct by a Minister of the Federal Government and the apparent connivance of those who ought to curb his excesses.”
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