Rivers Crisis: MASSOB Backs Wike, Blames Fubara For Reneging

Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, the Founder of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has taken a swipe at Simi Fubara of Rivers State for not keeping to whatever terms of agreement between him and his godfather, Nysome Wike, which he said was responsible for the present state of emergency declared in the state.

In a video he released on Thursday, the Biafra agitation leader took sides with the Minister for Federal Capital Territory, Wike, stating that he who goes to equity should have clean hands.

Uwazuruike stated that even though he was taking an unpopular position, natural justice demands that agreements should be kept even among thieves.

According to Uwazuruike, the crisis in Port Harcourt affects and is prevalent in both the south east and south south geopolitical zones of Nigeria, noting that the crisis would have been avoided if one party kept to agreement.

“If you know that you’re a politician and that you are approached to do a dirty job which your conscience doesn’t permit you to do, at that inception say I won’t, I can’t do it. That makes you a gentleman. It’s very common in the south east and south south where somebody will bring you out from the obscurity and make you a Governor, but at the end of the day you refuse to do your own part of the bargain. It not good!”

He waved the idea of people saying that the Governor was voted by the masses, stating that if a godfather had not given a party’s ticket to the beneficiary, nobody would have seen or known the candidate for votes to him.

“In this crisis, if it continues, many innocent people will die and when you trace the origin you will see that two persons reached an agreement and one party fulfill his own part of the bargain while the other refused to perform his part after benefiting from that agreement. It’s unjust and we need to look at that angle.

“If he (Fubara) had listened to the advice of former governor Fayoshe, he wouldn’t have fallen into this temptation. Nobody is a better governor because Nigeria is a corrupt nation. If you know that you cannot keep to an agreement, why should you accept it? Is it because you have been sworn in as a Governor and now has executive powers and you start flexing muscles. What has he gained now in all these?

“This is very important for our people because it’s distracting everybody in the south east and south south. We are not the only people in Nigeria, look at the other places. I’m not happy about it because it will involve the lives of our people and that is why I’m saying it. We need to weigh the balance and not just to mention Wike! Wike!! Wike is not the only devil in Nigeria politics. All the Governors in Nigeria are corrupt and no one should play the victim card here.”