By Chibuzor Akoma Aare Gani Adams, the Kakanfo of Yoruba land, has said that Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, might regret the kil...
By Chibuzor Akoma
Aare Gani Adams, the Kakanfo of Yoruba land, has said that
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, might regret the killing of Igbos in Oyigbo
if he don’t manage the situation now.
Gani Adams who said this in an interview with the Sun
Newspaper, noted that it is wrong to blame members of the Indigenous People of
Biafra (IPOB) for the violence that erupted in Obigbo during the #EndSARS
protest.
He said; “I think the governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike,
has come out to debunk it that he didn’t give any instruction to the army.
However, my take on the earlier statement credited to the governor where
he said he’s giving executive law to
proscribe IPOB, I must say I disagree with that. I must advise the governor
that he should be careful. He should look beyond as governor of Rivers State,
one day; he will finish that tenure and will be aspiring to have a national
position.
“If there is crisis in your state, don’t use every force in
your power to descend on that crisis and you don’t act as a military. He should
remember that he is a civilian governor in Rivers State; he should not talk as
if he’s talking to the opposition. Orders are very sensitive on how you handle
issues with diplomacy. And to make sure as a leader you weather the storm.
“Even if the Federal Government called IPOB a terrorist
group; it’s not in your power to say you will insert the law to call them
terrorist in your own state because there’s a slight difference between the
Igbo and the Rivers people. I understand during the state creation, part of
Igbo land was cut to join Rivers State. When you build enmity between the major
tribe it will count on you as a politician. Maybe in 2023 after his tenure he
would want to be a president or vice president and you want to go and campaign
in the Southeast, they will remember what you did to their own brothers.
“Even though not all
the Igbo share the ideology of IPOB, but they won’t be happy when you instigate
or instruct Nigerian army to kill their sons and daughters. But he has come out
to debunk it. He knows the implication. But he said one thing that he won’t
care of future ambition; he has to protect his own state. But he should
understand that same issues that happened in Rivers, happened in Ebonyi, almost
all the states in the South, in the aftermath of killing in Lekki, turned to
violence and most of the governors managed it without using executive power.
“Even within the crisis of the EndSARS, there was crisis
between the Yoruba and Hausa, but the Lagos State government and the security
agencies managed it so that there won’t be two crises at the same time. I don’t
see him managing that issue very well. He should talk less, on the crisis in
the media. He should allow his commissioner for information to talk on his
behalf. If you notice the statement has boomeranged you can debunk it as a
governor. That’s why a government has different ways of communication, when he
tests the waters with the statement and the statement did not go down well with
the people, he should now come out as the principal to debunk it and say
something in a diplomatically way that will not cause tension.
“I will appeal to him that the issues in Oyigbo should be
managed very well. This is race that are business people, scattered in
different places in Nigeria. What happened in Oyigbo can cause a reflection of
interest of the Igbo all over the world today and we don’t want something like
that to happen in future.”
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