Wike’s Unguarded, Derogatory Remarks on Ijaw Nation is Totally Unacceptable, Says IPM NationalPresident
By Jide Dominic, Yenagoa.
Following the recent outbursts of the derogatory remarks on Ijaw nation by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike and aired on a National Television Station as regards the protracted political impasse between him and the Rivers state Governor, Sir Siminalaye Fubara, the National President of Ijaw Patriotic Movement (IPM), Comrade Mislaw Ganren has berated the FCT Minister for dragging the entire Ijaw nation in the mud, describing the remarks as unguarded and totally unacceptable.
Ganren Mislaw asserted that with such remarks, it is abundantly clear that the FCT Minister does not have any regards for the Rivers people whom he governed for eight years and the entire Ijaw ethnic nationality, insisting that Nyesom Wike is not only hitting up the polity in Rivers state but also making the state ungovernable for Gov Siminalaye Fubara.
He wondered why he refered to an amiable organization like PANDEF which consists of reputable Ijaw elders and statesmen as “the most useless organization ever” , stressing that Nyesom Wike rose to political limelight and relevance with the candid support of these Ijaw elders and statesmen.
The IPM President who hails from Bomadi local government area of Delta state noted that IPM as a socio-cultural body came into existence with the onerous vision to further propagate and uphold the collective ideals, values and cultures of Ijaw nation and would not sit back and watch the FCT Minister plunge Ijaw race into political turmoil.
He opined that the purported and envisaged impeachment of Gov Siminalaye Fubara as a result of the supreme court judgement that reinstated the 27 lawmakers who defected to All Progressive Congress (APC) and are visibly loyal to the FCT Minister is nothing but a political gimmick and miscalculation that is capable of being a cog in the wheel of the socio-political and economic growth of the oil rich state.
