The Ijaw National Congress, INC, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to call the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, to order over his comments that the Ijaw people are a minority ethnic group in Rivers and other South South States except Bayelsa.
The National Publicity Secretary of the INC, Ezeonebi Oyakemegbeha, said this Friday in Abuja that the Ijaw people are the fourth largest ethnic group in Nigeria, the largest in Rivers, and also not a minority in Delta, saying he expects Wike to know that seeing as he had spent eight years as the governor of Rivers state.
Ezeonebi says that the Ijaw have consistently advocated for fairness and equity in the Niger Delta region and the South-South, and we will not be swayed by individual attempts to provoke them.
He says the INC will continue to maintain peace and stability while calling on President Tinubu to caution and redirect Wike’s focus to his ministerial duties.