Niger Delta Can Never Be Part Of Agitation For Biafran Republic – Gov Wike Tells Sultan

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Governor Nyeson Wike of Rivers State has said that the people of Niger Delta can never be part of the Igbo people that are agitating for the Republic of Biafra.

According to him, leaders and people of Niger Delta will always strive to defend the unity of Nigeria, because to them, the country remains as one indivisible entity and that it is ‘non negotiable’ and of paramount importance.

Governor Wike who spoke in Sokoto when he paid a visit to the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar II, said that the interest of Nigerians and Africans will be better served with Nigeria remaining as one ‘strong and united nation.’

“Let me first of all sincerely thank you, our father the Sultan, for what you are doing for this country, working tirelessly to ring peace and to bring unity to the people. So for all of us this is what is meant by one Nigeria.

“We cannot run away from this country. The unity of this country is very, very paramount.

The unity of this country is non-negotiable. I am from the Niger Delta, from Rivers State to be specific so I cannot see us in a divided country. No way.

We stand for the unity of this country.” The Governor said that his administration has put a lot of time, resources and energy to protect national assets especially the ones in Rivers State.

“In Rivers, you hardly find pipeline vandalisation. We are working at all times to protect national assets in our state. In my state, I am governor for all the people living in the state.

I am not a governor of a particular political party, but a governor for all the people of Rivers State.”

The governor commended the Sultan for his leadership of the Muslim community in Nigeria, adding that he was in Sokoto to felicitate with his colleague, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, who gave out his daughter in marriage on Saturday.

He dispelled the notion that his relationship with Tambuwal had political connotation, saying
that they have been friends for a long time: “long before politics defined who we are now.

“Tambuwal is my friend for a long time. If anything affects him, it affects me also. If he gives out his daughter in marriage, I have to be here to support him.

If any problem happens to him, it affects me as well.