• Says They Constitute Minority in Niger Delta

• Safiu Kehinde

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has dismissed threat by Ijaw National Congress over the ongoing political crisis involving Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara.

The former Rivers governor, in a media chat on Wednesday, held that the Ijaw is a minority group with little influence in the Niger Delta region.

This is coming under heels of the Rivers Assembly denial of Fubara access to the complex this morning.

Addressing newsmen, Wike talked down Ijaw influence despite their threat over alleged impeachment plot against Fubara by the Rivers Assembly.

He described them as a “minority of the minority”.

“Let me tell you something and people should have that right, Ijaw does not constitute the majority of the Niger Delta.

“People must speak out the truth, heaven will not fall. We only die once not two times.

“Ijaw does not constitute the majority of the Niger Delta. What nonsense, every day you wake up, Ijaw will do this. In Akwa-Ibom, Ijaw cannot become a governor.

“In Delta, Ijaw is the minority of the minority. With all due respect to our late elder statesman, Edwin Clark, he is from Delta.

“He has never produced Ijaw man to be governor of Delta. He has never.

“The only place that Ijaw man be a governor is in Bayelsa state, not in Edo, not in Rivers. They are minority of the minority. ” Wike said.