“…what nonsense everyday you wake up, Ijaw will do this”
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and immediate-past governor of Rivers State, His Excellency, Chief Nyesom Wike has described the Ijaw people as minority, saying they were only made governor of Rivers State out of benevolence.
According to Wike who made his position known during a chat with select media practitioners, the incessant threats of violence by the Ijaw people were “nonsense”.
The FCT Minister said: “When law speaks, all this asawana will die. And the law has spoken, let me tell you something and people should have that right. Ijaw does not constitute the majority of the Niger Delta. People must speak out the truth, heaven will not fall, we only die once not two times. Ijaw does not constitute majority of the Niger Delta, what nonsense everyday you wake up, Ijaw will do this.”
He continued: “In Akwa Ibom, Ijaw cannot be Governor, in Delta, Ijaw is the minority of the minority, with all due respect to our late elder statesman, Pa Edwin Clark, he has never produced Ijaw man to be Governor, he has never. The only place an Ijaw man can solely be Governor is in Bayelsa State. Not in Edo, not in Rivers where they are minority of the minority. it is out of our benevolence, live and let live, we picked an Ijaw man to be Governor.”
