Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike says that he supports the agitation of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB but hates the violence associated with it.
Wike said that the marginalisation of the South East is glaring and the group has every right to agitate.
The governor, however, said that he would not sit down and watch any group destroy government infrastructure in his state.
Wike who disclosed this on Channels TV Politics Today on Monday said that IPOB’s leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu had once hailed him as a good leader.
When asked about his thoughts on IPOB and if the group was a threat to him, Wike replied that the group is not a threat to him.
According to him “It’s because of the division in this country that is causing this kind of agitation. What pains me is that people take it as if I is using the opportunity to fight anyone.
“There was a time IPOB was singing praises about Wike. Nnamdi Kanu was singing praises about Wike, that Onyeike is our son, is this, is that. Why? Because I said that there is no crime in people agitating and that federal government should listen to the agitations.
“But my problem came when they came to my state and burnt the courts, the police stations and every infrastructure. We said, not only did the state put money to set up those infrastructure but we’re part of you.
“I support the agitation. I support the quest to change the marginalisation of the South East. Whether anyone likes it or not, I do and we need to sit down on a round table and talk about it. But did we do wrong for infrastructure in the state to be burnt?.
“I am the only aspirant that has come out to say that I’m with IPOB, that what the group is doing is right. People are taking advantage of the electioneering period to write all manner of things against me.
“I read where they wrote that that Wike said ‘I don’t need IPOB, I don’t need South East. After all, I am with the North, I am with the South West, I can win election without the South East’.
“There is injustice in the land but that does not mean we should kill everybody because when you kill everybody, nobody will sit down to dialogue”.
