Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) has threatened to shut down all oil flow stations in the Niger Delta in defence of Siminalayi Fubara against any attempt to forcefully remove Rivers State Governor, from office.
IYC President, Worldwide, Alaye Theophilus, who issued the threats also cautioned those bent on destabilising Rivers State government to tread with caution, noting that the warning had become necessary after appraising the recent Supreme Court judgment nullifying the Rivers 2024 local government elections, ordering the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to stop releasing FAAC money to the State government and Governor Fubara to represent the 2025 budget to the Martins Amawhule-led House of Assembly.
The IYC leader further argued that the grounds on which the jurists of the Supreme Court nullified the Rivers State LGA elections is very provocative and laughable as other States equally relied on the 2023 INEC voters register to conduct the elections.
Alaye also claimed that the Supreme Court’s verdict on the Rivers State crisis affirming a recent threat that a tsunami would soon rock Rivers State shows that the apex court is working hand in glove with certain persons to destroy the State.
“The Supreme Court verdict is a purchased judgment to please and favour certain interests. Rivers State, a major contributor to the national coffers should not be starved of funds from their God-given natural endowment. The apex court should review the judgement.
“It has agitated the youths of Ijaw nation who have maintained peace in the Niger Delta and supported the President Tinubu-led Federal Government.
“It was the quest of the then NPN government to take over opposition controlled States that led to the military takeover in 1983. The Tinubu-led Federal Government should not create situations that will destroy the current democratic experience.
“Those threatening impeachment against Governor Fubara should be careful because any forceful attempt to remove Fubara from office will be stoutly resisted by the IYC as youths of Ijaw nation will be left with no other options than to shut down all the flow stations in the Niger Delta,” Theophilus warned in a statement he issued in Abuja on Tuesday – yesterday, March 4.
He described the attacks and the Supreme Court’s verdict as a brazen affront on the Ijaw nation.
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