Few days after President Goodluck Jonathan officially
closed the national conference in Abuja, youths
under the aegis of Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) and Akwa
Ibom Movement (FAIME), are at loggerheads
following recommendations by delegates that parts
of Akwa Ibom State oil-rich areas be excised and be
part of the proposed Oil Rivers State.
Members of the Akwa Ibom caucus in the just-con­
cluded conference had raised the alarm in a letter
addressed to the Chairman of the conference, Justice
Idris Kutigi on the proposed state. The caucus
members in the letter warned that any plan to excise
any part of Akwa Ibom State would be resisted.
Members of the caucus which included former gov­
ernor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Victor Attah,
former minister of Lands and Housing, Chief Nduese
Essien and several others, had stated in the letter
that since they were not consulted before the
conference took the decision to create the new Oil
Rivers State, no part of the present day Akwa Ibom
State would be ceded to the Ijaws.
However, IYC members had challenged their posi­
tion. The position of IYC, which was contained in a
statement and signed by Eric Omare, slammed Akwa
Ibom delegates, claiming that they lacked the right to
oppose the creation of the proposed state.
The IYC statement read in part: “The petitioners are
not part of the proposed state; hence they lack the
locus to oppose the creation of Oil Rivers State.
Therefore, we call on the relevant authorities to
disregard the protest, as the proposed Oil Rivers
State deserves to be created on merit.
“We wish to make it abundantly clear that anybody or
group of people opposing the creation of Ijaw state
for the Ijaw people of Akwa Ibom and Rivers States
on the one hand, and the Ijaw people of Delta, Edo
and Ondo states on the other, are threats to the
existence of Ijaw people.
“And we are ready to take any step to protect our exis­
tence. The IYC would not sit back and allow Ijaw
people to be politically and economically oppressed
and suffocated in Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Delta, Edo and
Ondo states.”
Meanwhile, Akwa Ibom youths have also vowed to
defend their state and its resources with the last drop
of their blood.
In a statement released by FAIME and signed by its
president, Mr. Ibanga Isine, the group warned that
the peaceful disposition of Akwa Ibom people should
not be taken for granted.

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Mumu president! The north MUST sabotage Jonathan if he corners the PDP ticket by hook or crook. They must insist on a primary and vote against him as a bloc! If he rigs himself in, they must work from now until the elections that he does not win a single vote in the northern part of the country! In the south, he will lose completely in the West, and any votes he gets in the SS must be split in an unfavourable ratio against him. Police may be deployed to cover elections but the army must go and fight in Sambisa the BH war.