I support IPOB’s agitation not the violence – Wike

Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has said that he supports the agitation of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) but not the violence linked with the group

He made this known during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today.

“I support the agitations in the South-East, whether anybody likes it or not, I do. We should sit down at the round table and discuss it.

“But again what do I do wrong when you have not gone to say ‘bomb everything there.’ I am a governor and you are telling me what has never happened and I should accept? Do you need to kill everybody in my area simply for me to say I am with you? And I say no, I won’t do that, he said

When asked if IPOB is a threat to him, he said, “Why will they be a threat to me? It is because of the division in this country today that we have never had this country being divided this way.

“What pains me is that people take politics to think that I want to use this opportunity to fight this person. There came a time IPOB was singing praises about Wike. This Nnamdi Kanu was singing praises (that) Wike is our son.”