Igbo National Council (INC) has handed down a 72 hour ultimatum to Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state to withdraw soldiers from the Oyigbo Local Government Area of the state over the alleged ongoing killings by suspected soldiers.
Failure to do that, INC said, they would drag Wike to the International Criminal Court, ICC.
The Next Edition reports that Gov. Wike and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have been having a face off since the #EndSARS protests began in the state.
Wike had accused IPOB of being behind the destruction of government and private institutions during the protests in the area.
He has also alleged that IPOB was colonizing the area and using it as a base to lunch attacks in other places.
He, therefore, proscribed the group in the state, announcing a N50m bounty on the leader of the group in the state.
However, the INC disagreed with Wike, saying that troops in Oyigbo were on Wike’s order just to negotiate a Vice Presidential slot for himself come 2023.
The INC President, Chilos Godsent, gave the ultimatum in Owerri on Monday while speaking to newsmen.
He said there were before them reports allegedly showing that soldiers were killing innocent persons in the area following the outcome of the EndSARs protests.
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Godsent said: “The Igbo National Council (INC) notes with total condemnation the ongoing massacre of the Igbo people in Oyigbo Local Government Area (LGA) of Rivers State by the blood thirsty brigands of the Nigerian Army backed by the Nyesom Wike led Government of Rivers State.
“We have noted the treacherous broadcast by the Gov. Nyesom Wike regarding the activities of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in Rivers State and arrived at the conclusion that Gov. Nyesom Wike is dancing ‘Surugede’ and very will soon be disappointed.
“We have done the detail analysis of the treacherous and unholy romance of Gov. Nyesom Wike with the blood thirsty murderous Nigerian soldiers whom Nyesom Wike has commissioned to massacre the Oyigbo residence.
“Intelligence available to the Igbo National Council (INC) shows that the satanic alliance of Nyesom Wike with the Jihadists Nigerian Soldiers was triggered by his inordinate desperate ambition to vie for Vice President in 2023 Presidential race.
The script is that Nyesom Wike must show to the Jihadists that he has the capacity and willingness to attack and try to exterminate the Igbo Race in Rivers State as condition to get the support of the Caliphate.
“The Igbo National Council (INC) therefore wishes to advice Nyesom Wike to go back to school to read history in order to be clearheaded of what the outcome of his new alliance will be in 2023.
When they finish using him they will dump him like they dumped Adams Oshomole, Rt. Hon. Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu and Sen. Ahmed Bola Tinibu and many others.
“Finally, the INC therefore calls on Nyesom Wike to immediately recall those blood thirsty killer gangs of the Nigerian soldiers that are rampaging in Oyigbo killing innocent harmless Nigerians while Boko Haram is busy sacking many communities in the Northern Nigerian States.
“Consequent upon the above, we therefore give Nyesom Wike seventy two hours from Tuesday 3rd November 2020 to withdraw those murderers disguising as Nigerian soldiers from Oyigbo or we shall declare a Fatwa on Nyesom Wike and also petition him to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on offence of genocide.”
