As the crisis between the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, and his estranged political godfather and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesome Wike, thickens, Ogoni people have threatened to storm the streets of Abuja, if President Tinubu fails to call Wike to order.
Speaking under the aegis of Ogoni Development Drive (ODD), the group asked President Bola Tinubu to call his FCT Minister to order, failure to do so will attract dire consequences.
In a statement on Monday signed by Convener of ODD, Solomon Lenu, and made available to Abuja City Journal, it said it had uncovered plans by Wike and the expelled state assembly members to continuously raise political tension against the Governor and people of the state, a development they claim is already scaring away investors from the state.
“We want to use this medium to inform the Inspector General (IGP) and Nigerian public that, should Chief E.N Wike, and the expelled former Assembly Members be allowed to continue to cause tension that impedes peaceful governance, which is creating a false atmosphere of crisis, and keeping investors away from our state to the detriment of our teeming youths who are searching for employment opportunities, ODD will massively mobilize the people of Rivers State to occupy the streets of Abuja. Rivers State cannot be reduced to a theatre of political war, while the Minister thrives in Abuja,’’ the group said.
On a final note, the group implored the president to devise ways of nipping the crisis in the bud to forestall the lingering its attendant consequences.
