Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has decried what he described as the politicisation of security saying until the Federal Government stop playing politics, insecurity would continue in the country. He said his administration once sought the help of the federal government to deal with kidnapping in Rivers, but was denied assistance..
Stressing that the current level of insecurity in parts of the country is the result of the attitude of the Federal Government towards Rivers people. Wike, made the assertion when he spoke on a television programme.On the recent declaration made by former militant leader and erstwhile President of the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) Asari Dokubo, Wike wondered why people were granting undeserved publicity to Dokubo insisting that he would not glorify the former warlord with a response. Describing his comment as too irrelevant to deserve his response .
He said: “The problem we have in Nigeria is that we try to give publicity to things that do not matter. You know the antecedent of Asari Dokubo. But each time people like Dokubo come out to make statements, we try to publicise it.
“Sometimes, he works for the Federal Government. Sometimes, he attacks the federal government. I am one person that Asari Dokubo has always abused. But I won’t respond because I know his modus operandi.
“He has accused us particularly me and my ethnic group that we are Igbos and that we have no oil well. But if you respond to that you will give him Publicity.
“If he says he is now the chairman of Biafra, let us see the people he has. In fact, there are issues we should not discuss. It is too irrelevant, I won’t do it. Let’s focus on Nigerian challenges not on frivolities”.
