The immediate past Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike,
has said that Governor Similayi Fubara is not an Ijaw man.
Wike stated this while addressing a large number of Kalabari
people at a reception organized for him on Saturday.
Recall that Wike had recently claimed that an Ijaw man would
not have become governor in Rivers State without his support, talking about
Fubara.
Wike said the Ijaw ethnic group does not constitute the
majority in any of the Niger Delta states except Bayelsa.
The statement came amid the ongoing political crisis in the
Rivers State, with Wike and Fubara at the center of the feud.
In the same interview, Wike said that people from the Opobo
clan of Rivers State, where the governor comes from, are not real Ijaw people.
Speaking to the Kalabaris on Saturday, Wike was more direct,
saying, “Let nobody deceive you that the governor is Ijaw; he is not. All of
you are Ijaw; are you benefiting? Politics is interest.
“We must come up to say people must not behave and treat
people, used and dump them and then you say it’s politics. That politics has to
stop.”