By Emmanuel Abi Couson
Some parts of the oil city of Warri witnessed protest by Ijaws demanding Nyesom Wike’s Removal as FCT Minister
Ijaw people flood some streets in a massive protest against Nyesom Wike’s remarks on the Ijaw ethnic nationality.
The protesters are demanding his immediate removal as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), insisting that his comments are an insult to the Ijaw people.
As the demonstration intensified, with chants and banners calling for justice and respect for the Ijaw nation, security forces are on the ground monitoring the peaceful protest.
It would be recalled that Wike while speaking in the media chat on Siminalayi Fubara said “Let me say something and people should have that right: the Ijaw does not constitute the majority of the Niger Delta. Every day you wake up, Ijaw will do this.
“In Akwa Ibom, Ijaw cannot be governor. In Delta, Ijaw is minority of the minority. With all due respect to our late elder statesman, Henry Clark, he’s from Delta. He had never produced an Ijaw man to be governor of Delta. The only place Ijaw can solely be governor is Bayelsa State.
Not in Edo, not in Rivers. It’s minority of the minorities. Out of our own benevolence, live and let’s live. If it is by strength, it cannot be the Ogonis. It cannot be the Ekpeyes. It cannot be the Ikwerres. It cannot. Every time you hear this, Ijaw said this, Ijaw just didn’t say this.
“What kind of system are we talking about? In fact, when I brought this governor, they said, he is not the real Ijaw, that if they are taking about real Ijaws, it should come to the Kalabaris, that how can you say if they want to give power to Ijaws, it should it should be the Opobo.”
