The Rivers Elders and Leaders Council (RELEC) Chairman Chief Albert Horsfall and Secretary Lawrence Ibiayenie, yesterday warned that Port Harcourt should not be turned to a battle ground by pro-Biafran agitators.
The elders described the protests by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as uncalled for. Rivers people are not Biafrans, they insisted.
According to them, it is wrong to transport Igbo youths in trailers and buses from the five states in the Southeast zone, to protest in Port Harcourt, thereby halting commercial activities, destroy property and cause untold hardship for motorists, commuters and pedestrians.
RELEC said: “The attempt by these elements (IPOB members) to focus on Port Harcourt for their political rascality is totally unacceptable and is hereby condemned by Rivers Elders and Leaders Council. The action so far taken by the Biafran protesters in Port Harcourt is highly provocative to all genuine sons and daughters of Rivers State, who have so far restrained themselves from confronting the demonstrators in Port Harcourt.
“The choice of Port Harcourt (for IPOB’s protests) may be a deliberate ploy to make the Rivers State capital the battle ground for any fracas that may follow their rascality. We reject these moves in its entirety and hereby repeat our warning that they (Biafran protesters) must desist forthwith.
“Rivers State people are not Biafrans and had never been and will never be. The RELEC wishes to call on all elders and leaders of the states from which these youths have been pouring into Port Harcourt, for this unwelcome and unwholesome political rascality, to call their youths to order and forbid them from forever staging further demonstrations and protests in Port Harcourt and other parts of Rivers State.
“RELEC wishes to observe the good neighbourly relationship which has always existed between Rivers people and their neighbours. We wish that the cordial and mutually beneficial relationship should continue to exist. Persons responsible for the pro-Biafra protests must immediately halt the unfriendly activities forthwith.”
Rivers elders and leaders also stated that they “strongly” supported Wike’s ban of protests in Rivers state, which they said would go a long way to promote peace, thereby moving the state forward.
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike in a broadcast on Wednesday banned further protests by IPOB members and demonstrations by other groups.
The Rivers Commissioner of Police, Musa Kimo, also noted that his command would not allow lawlessness or breakdown of law and order.
Senate minority leader Senator Godswill Akpabio also condemned the Biafran agitators.
Speaking at the venue of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) conference in Abuja, Akpabio, a former Akwa Ibom State governor, called on the Federal Government and the states where the militias are protesting to stop the spread of the agitation.
“The Biafra agitators must be told that those who witnessed the Nigerian civil war will never wish to experience another war in their entire lifetime.
“If you don’t like the government of the day, you must wait for another election to vote them out”, Akpabio said.

U spoke like a reasonable elder.... The peaceful protest is becoming destructive and its not the aim.... Buh I pray biafra exist

Worthy of mention is the fact that most of us from the South South may not want to belong to Biafra.
That does not, in any way mean that we do not support Biafra and the struggle to re-define the false unity called Nigeria.

There is so much imbalance, dissatisfaction, cheat, ethnicity and tribalism, favouritism, etc, for us to keep pretending.
I have said in in fora more than one,
it was truly a marriage of convenience, we do not need it again.

We are strange-bed-fellows.

Let us reconsider the terms and conditions of the union.

The union is growing increasingly unhealthy by the day.

The only way out out this quagmire is to have true Federalism, regionalism or something.

However the extreme and last resort could be cessation/divorce.

Any of the above is the only way we can end insurgency, militancy, Biafra agitation and other protests.

You ofeemanuu bigots . keep writing that trash . you lots will drink rat poison and die in millions . thieves so sad . there is nothing you can change even if you meet obong of calabar . useless ofeemanuu animals .

Riverians are yoruba pple,stop disturbing them biko

they are not,nd they will not b part of biafra

Mean while


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Yoruba people don start again oooo

Wey ur source na ?
The Rivers elders I know of are Igbo men I don't know the rivers elders in oshogbo u're quoting with source ...

Yorubas are the devilish , diabolical

Please, we don't need the elders from rivers! They are sabo.

Op listen good, if the federal Government allows violence to erupt in the south east, the Niger deltans will also join in the fight, the Niger deltans are solidly behind the people of Biafra, forget what you read online and newspapers.

If the Hausas and Fulanis can come together then the Igbos and Niger deltans are also together.

Yes, our elders have done well by rejecting these separatists group called IPOB. We are not Biafrans and will never be too. because we are still seeing d mistakes of 19666-70 being repeated by these miscreants. Why disturbing, destroying , and stopping commercial activities in Rivers state? Did Rivers state govt arrest Nnamdi Kanu? Is Nnamdi Kanu in port Harcourt prison? Nnamdi Kanu was arrested in Lagos and transferred to Abuja yet these miscreants refused going to those states to vent their anger instead, they chose port Harcourt. Even if Rivers state decides to be part of Biafra, must they first destroy and kill what we have here first as they did in 1966-70. The Igbo's are opening old wounds. They should allow a sleeping dog rest. The Issue of Biafra has been settled since 1970. So anybody talking about it is simply looking for trouble.

post the link to confirm this pls

YORUBA MEANS - FOOL

So the Op is A YORUBA FOOL...


The leader of Our Igbo Race is An PH Elder (Ikwerre man) so tell me how come he is now yoruba...

Yoruba on Niaraland is Diff from the Chameleon ones I see

A sourceless post by a yorubastard.