Governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 2023 election in Rivers State, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, has felicitated with his kinsmen, the people of Ogoni Ethnic Nationality, on the occasion of the 2022 Ogoni Martyrs’ Day.
Abe, in a statement personally signed by him said the occasion of the 27th Anniversary of the gruesome murder of foremost environmentalist, Kenule Saro-Wiwa and his fellow compatriots, calls for sober reflection.
He said: “It is a great opportunity once more for the Ogoni people to reflect not just on the supreme sacrifice of blood, which the martyrs shed for the Ogoni cause but the reasons for which they made that sacrifice.
“I want to use this opportunity of the remembrance to thank the Ogoni people for their resilience and their determination that the sacrifice of the martyrs will not be in vain. The struggle for the liberation and prosperity of the Ogoni people and indeed all those oppressed, economically, politically, environmentally, will continue until not just the Ogoni but all of God’s children across the world are liberated.
“It is my hope and prayer that we continue to uphold the tenets of the Ogoni struggle, the principles of non-violence, people-participation and the projection of the power of the people above the power of every tyrant.
“In the famous words of Jean Jacques Rousseau ‘Man’ was born free but everywhere he is in chains, the time has come for the Ogoni people to unshackle our chains and reclaim our God-given freedom”.