4th January, 2022

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt

Governor Nyesom Wike has warned Ijaw people against attempt to appropriate everything about Niger Delta to themselves to the detriment of ethnic groups in the oil producing region.

Wike spoke on Tuesday at Bori, headquarters Khana local government area in Rivers State during the celebration of the 2022 Ogoni Day celebration.

He also accused the people of the Niger Delta of marginalising themselves by failing to unite and by selling out to enemies of the region.

The Rivers State governor said Ijaw people have no right to think that everything in the Niger Delta belonged to them or that the region is their sole enclave.

The Governor said Ijaw people should for instance, stop thinking that they had the exclusive right to produce all the critical appointees into key Niger Delta agencies like the Niger Delta Development Commission.


Wike condemned protests by Ijaw people against appointment of people who are not of their ethnic stock from the Niger Delta into such agencies.

He also denied having any personal interest in the case in the controversial case Rivers State Government filed against the Federal Government and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPC at the Supreme Court over Oil Mining Licence 11 for the exploration and exploitation of oil and gas in Ogoniland,

He said by the time the case is decided, he would have left office as governor.

The Governor added that for Ogoni people to make progress, their leaders must unite and shun divisiveness, which, according to him, they have been using to enrich themselves to the detriment of their area.

Earlier, a former President of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, Mr. Ledum Mitee, had said he came out of retirement to ensure that MOSOP was reunited to achieve the dreams of their founding fathers.

He said that though the Ogoni struggle had achieved a lot, the current disunity and factions in the organisation were going to be counterproductive if the people do not come together.

He urged Rivers State Governor to ensure that Ogoni area is favoured as he begins the process of handing over the reins of power in Rivers State.

Ogoni people have been agitating to produce the next governor of Rivers State.

President of Ijaw National Congress, Prof. Benjamin Ogaba, in a goodwill message condemned former President Olusegun Obasanjo for saying the oil in the Niger Delta belonged to the whole of Nigeria.

He said by international convention and even trite law, it has been settled that resources on and under the land of indigenous people belonged to the people and they must enjoy the proceeds of such resources.

He urged contending factions of MOSOP to come together to move their people forward.

Other Speakers at the event were Chief Joi Nunieh, a former Chairman of NDDC, Senator Barry Mpigi and Prof Emenike Wami, the President General of Ogbakor Ikwerre Convention.

The theme of this year’s Ogoni Day celebration is Leaving No One Behind. It’s the 30th anniversary of Ogoni Day.

In 1993, 300,000 Ogoni people marched through the streets of Bori to celebrate the first Ogoni Day.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/pmnewsnigeria.com/2022/01/04/wike-to-ijaw-people-niger-delta-not-your-enclave/%3Famp%3D1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6Ytpcn0mJ0

From the 13th minute

He must have a reason for saying that

Noted

Ok

The way Government officials dey always talk for this country eh

He's mad he thinks Niger delta is ikwerre land or Rivers state pdp where nobody can stand up to him. If they born you well enter warri or bayelsa and repeat that nonsense

Leahla:
He must have a reason for saying that

He said the exact thoughts of every One in SS, the way non Northerners are claiming northern domination in Buhari government..
Ss-ners are also claiming Ijaw domination in NDDC

DubaiLandLord:
The way Government officials dey always talk for this country eh

I was expecting the Wike fears no one soundbite

Wike on point

BigSarah:


I was expecting the Wike fears no one soundbite

I don't understand you

Leahla:
He must have a reason for saying that

To allow such idiocy in the often claims by Ijaw could lead to unexpected consequences. Ijaw peeps believed that repeated lies lead to a de facto truth. They have failed in attempt to claim Ubani (Bonny), Igwenga/Opu Obu (Opobo), Udekanma (Degema), Umuokirika (Okrika) and Igweocha (Port Harcourt) are Ijaw.

criminalmindz:
He's mad he thinks Niger delta is ikwerre land or Rivers state pdp where nobody can stand up to him. If they born you well enter warri or bayelsa and repeat that nonsense

Why are fools who had never even engaged in a fist fight always tend to warm people of body harm?

BigSarah:


He said the exact thoughts of every One in SS, the way non Northerners are claiming northern domination in Buhari government..
Ss-ners are also claiming Ijaw domination in NDDC

But should he has said so?

Thinkam:


But should he has said so?

If you think it's not wrong to speak against Northern domination, then there is Nothing wrong in speaking against Ijaw domination of NDDC

Thhy

BigSarah:




If you think it's not wrong to speak against Northern domination, then there is Nothing wrong in speaking against Ijaw domination of NDDC

Touchê

I thought some fuuls were saying the news is fake ? That ipob is the one that is trying to pitch wike against the people of ijaw? Now their is video evidence all of them will deserve from this thread hoping to converge on a thread where igbos will be blamed for the misfortune of Niger delta.


Ijaws are worst than what they accused igboman of.

criminalmindz:
He's mad he thinks Niger delta is ikwerre land or Rivers state pdp where nobody can stand up to him. If they born you well enter warri or bayelsa and repeat that nonsense

Ijaws only dominate bayelsa they are minority in warri.

ijaw area are not even major oil producing area. they must thought that because export terminal are located in their area that makes them the owners . well I blame Igbo people for their laxity which gave rise to ijaw claiming Niger Delta

I'm yet to see all those ranting on the other thread, claiming that it's iPob and there propaganda,
Proof show all of them disappear.

Advocate500:
I thought some fuuls were saying the news is fake ? That ipob is the one that is trying to pitch wike against the people of ijaw? Now their is video evidence all of them will deserve from this thread hoping to converge on a thread where igbos will be blamed for the misfortune of Niger delta.


Ijaws are worst than what they accused igboman of.

All Nigerians are the same

He's against Ijaw domination in the Niger Delta but will eagerly eliminate the igbos in Obigbo? Obigbo is part of his Rivers State which is part of the Niger Delta! Who's fooling who?

Ipob haters come and defend yourself. Evidence don land. For your information I'm a supporter of the vegetable in Abuja.

The ijaw perception of NDDC/ Niger delta region has to stop

DREagon:
I'm yet to see all those ranting on the other thread, claiming that it's iPob and there propaganda,
Proof show all of them disappear.

Don't mind the fools I just finished watching it on AIT focus on nigeria program now.

IJAW IS THE LARGEST NIGER DELTA TRIBE,SAME WAY HAUSA IS TO NIGERIA. THIS IS WHY WE IJAWS SAY IJAW REPUBLIC OR NOTHING ELSE. THANKGOD ALL IJAW AREAS ARE TOGETHER.

GOD BLESS THE IJAW REPUBLIC, GOD BLESS OUR HEROES GENERAL DITARI, AND PROFESSOR BENJAMIN OKABA, THE IJAW REPUBLIC LEADERS. IJAW REPUBLIC, OUR HOME.

DitariDisciple2:
IJAW IS THE LARGEST NIGER DELTA TRIBE,SAME WAY HAUSA IS TO NIGERIA. THIS IS WHY WE IJAWS SAY IJAW REPUBLIC OR NOTHING ELSE. THANKGOD ALL IJAW AREAS ARE TOGETHER.

Noted

DitariDisciple2:
GOD BLESS THE IJAW REPUBLIC, GOD BLESS OUR HEROES GENERAL DITARI, AND PROFESSOR BENJAMIN OKABA, THE IJAW REPUBLIC LEADERS. IJAW REPUBLIC, OUR HOME.

Hand go soon touch your Generals

Your General will be as humble as Biaflans Supleme Leader at DSS Underground Cell in Abuja while joyfully singing the National Anthem Of The Federal Republic Of Nigeria

DubaiLandLord:
Hand go soon touch your Generals

Your General will be as humble as Biaflans Supleme Leader at DSS Underground Cell in Abuja while joyfully singing the National Anthem Of The Federal Republic Of Nigeria

FOR NOW,WE ARE FOLLOWING THE SELF DETERMINATION, LAWFULLY LIKE PROFESSOR BANJI AKITOYE OF ODUDUWA REPUBLIC. FOR NOW, ITS STILL SO. YOU ARE THE NEXT MOST RESPECTED YORUBA ON NAIRALAND IN MY SIGHT AFTER NAIRALAND OWNER. U RESPECT IJAW TO A GREAT EXTENT AND IT MAKES ME RESECT U AND YORUBAS.

IJAW ALONE PRODUCES OVER 90 PERCENT OF ALL NIGERIAS CRUDE OIL, BUT ALL WE GET IN RETURN IS MARGINALIZATION, AND BALKANIZATION INTO ONDO,EDO,DELTA, BAYELSA, RIVERS,AND AKWA-IBOM STATES, WHEN ALL IJAW AREAS, ARE FULLY TOGETHER, AND WERE NOT SCATTERED BY GOD. IJAW REPUBLIC OUR HOME. ALL IBO FRUSTRATIONS, AND LIES ABOUT IJAW END ON NAIRALAND AND NOT PHYSICAL.