The Governor Of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has said that the members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) can’t use the state to launch
This was contained in a statement by Wike, released through his media aide, Kelvin Ebiri, on Monday during a meeting with the Community Development Committees, youths leaders and council chairmen at the Government House, in Port Harcourt.
The statement reads in part; “We can never be against any ethnic group. We can never do that. We have lived in harmony with the Ibos, the Hausas, and Edo people.”
“Everybody that comes to this State we have lived in harmony with. So Nigerians must commend Rivers State as a place where you’ve never had a problem between this group and that group.”
“There’s one terrorist group they call IPOB. I didn’t declare them a terrorist group, the court declared them a terrorist group, not me.”
“The federal government declared them a terrorist group. IPOB can’t use Rivers State to be a place where they’ll be launching attacks. If you allow that, your future, your children’s future is gone,” Wike added.
“Go to Oyigbo and see what they’ve done. They destroyed the court. What did the court do? See the soldiers they killed and burnt them. See the policemen they killed and burnt them and then you said people would sit and fold their arms?”