Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has declared that members of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples Organization of Biafra, IPOB, can\u2019t use the state to launch their attacks.<\/p>\n
The governor also urged the 23 local government chairmen, and youths in the state not to allow IPOB to hold demonstrations and hoist its flag within their jurisdictions.<\/p>\n
Wike said this during a meeting with the Community Development Committees, youths leaders, and presiding council officers at the Government House in Port Harcourt on Monday.<\/p>\n
According to a statement signed by Kelvin Ebiri, his Special Assistant on Media, Governor Wike labeled Rivers state as the most accommodating state for all Nigerians.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can never be against any ethnic group. We can never do that. We have lived in harmony with the Igbos, the Hausas, and Edo people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody that comes to this state we have lived in harmony with. So Nigerians must commend Rivers State as a place where you\u2019ve never had a problem between this group and that group.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s one terrorist group they call IPOB. I didn\u2019t declare them a terrorist group; the court declared them a terrorist group, not me.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe federal government declared them a terrorist group. IPOB can\u2019t use Rivers State to be a place where they\u2019ll be launching attacks. If you allow that, your future, your children\u2019s future is gone,\u201d Wike added.<\/p>\n
\u201cGo to Oyigbo and see what they\u2019ve 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?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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