Biafra Nations Youth League, BNYL, has attacked the Governor
of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike for attributing the ongoing crisis in Oyigbo Local
Government Area of the State to the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and the
Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi.
The group also condemned the killing of residents in the
area by Nigeria soldiers.
The National Leader of BNYL, Prince Chimezie Richard, who
addressed reporters in Port Harcourt, called on Wike to intervene before the
situation got out of hands.
The group warned that what is happening in Oyigbo could lead
to rebellion against the Military elsewhere and the country will be thrown into
crisis.
BNYL dismissed Wike’s claim that the hoodlums who attacked
the Police station and the army were members of IPOB.
According to Princewill, the protesters had no Biafra
insignia and the name of the groups they belong to was not written on their
foreheads.
The group wondered how Wike would be pointing accusing
fingers on a particular group of people when similar incidents happened in Edo,
Lagos States and Abuja
BNYL also berated Wike for dragging the name of Amaechi into
the matter, adding that the Biafran movement is not being sponsored by any
Nigerian politician but Biafrans in diaspora.
The sessesionist group accused the Rivers Governor of
bringing Amaechi into the matter because the former Governor declared that he
is an Igbo man, which according to BNYL is against the politics of Rivers
State.
“We know the politics of Rivers State, we know why Wike is
politicising his fight against IPOB, if not why is he involving Amaechi,
because the former Governor did not publicly deny his Igbo heritage like Wike
has done,” the group said.
The group accused Wike of referring to the Igbos when he
called IPOB strange elements in Rivers State, adding that the Rivers people are
actively involved in the Biafran movement.
BNYL dismissed claims that the Biafran struggle is aimed at
annexing territories, saying, “That is the way he [Wike] understands it, even
though he knows the truth but for political reasons he is covering up.
“He [Wike] is an Igbo man but he has to appear against the
Igbo to please many in Rivers State.
“He cannot say that some group of which he is referring to
Igbos are renaming his community, who does not know that Obigbo was renamed to
Oyigbo after it was carved out from old Imo State during boundary adjustment?
“Who does not know that Egbema was carved into Rivers State
from Imo State during same adjustment and who doesn’t know Etchie people are
Igbo, who doesn’t know that the name Wike is an Igbo name and that Ikwerre are
Igbo?
“So, how can we annex our own people, you see the politics
now, he now claims Amaechi is behind it all because he thinks Amaechi is now
fully involved in Igbo affairs”.
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