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Graham Douglas funeral: Wike has shown disdain and haterd against Ijaw nation-Anabs Sara-Igbe
Elder statesman, High Chief Anabs Sara-Igbe, has reacted to the absence of Gov. Nyesom Wike at the funeral of former four-time federal minister, Alabo Graham Douglas, at the weekend.
Sara-Igbe, in a statement yesterday, said Wike has openly shown disdain and hatred for the Kalabari ethnic nationality and the entire Ijaw nation.
He described Gov. Nyesom Wike’s claim of spending N50 million on the health of the late elder statesman as political, insincere, incongruous and diversionary.”
He also said Wike rather than exhibitng a high level of leadership anchored on fairness has politically and economically enslaved the Ijaw nation.
“It is also unfortunate that rather than evolve measures that would foster cohesion and peaceful co-existence among the people, and give all ethnic nationalities in Rivers State a sense of belonging, Governor Wike has openly shown his disdain, absolute hatred and nepotism against the people of Kalabari Kingdom,” he said.
In swift response, Kelvin Ebiri,the Special Assistant (Media) to Governor Nyesom Wike, said in his usual manner, Chief Anabs Sara-Igbe has shown himself again as being infantile, ignorant, and pedestrian in his view on issues about the workings of State and governance.
Ebiri said Sara-Igbe’s statement merely contains baseless allegations against the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike,and magnitude of falsehood peddled in his statement should not be ignored.
He said Governor Wike had always sued for peaceful coexistence. He had created the climate for every ethnic nationality to consider themselves as one indivisible Rivers State.
“That was why, on 12th September 2022, while inaugurating the ultra-modern former Riv-Bank Insurance building in Port Harcourt, he said, “I have told people, let us live in peace. So many people think that if they don’t talk about us, they won’t survive. People like to use the dead of our prominent people to play politics.”
