Ipob warns residents of Ohaji Local Government Area against accepting Wike's offer to join Rivers State

SECESSIONIST group the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) has warned the people of Ohaji Local Government Area of Imo State against ceding their land to Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State.

Of  late, there has a dispute over which state the area belongs to and Governor Wike is said to have offered the people of the local government N150,000 a month to be part of Rivers State. Ipob has cautioned the people of Ohaji against accepting Governor Wike’s offer, describing it as satanic and a deceptive financial inducement.

Ipob spokesman Emma Powerful, warned that ceding their communities to  Governor Wike would affect their children’s future, hence why such a deceptive move should be rejected. He urged the communities to treat whoever is persuading them to change their state of origin as a criminal.

Mr Powerful said: “Following an illegal undocumented treaty to cede communities of Ohaji Egbema Local Government Area from Imo State to Rivers State via a crooked financial inducement by current Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike. We the global family and movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra under the command and leadership of our great leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu wish to warn that such project is called to a halt to avert inevitable consequences.

“We suggest to the communities that fall into this deceptive venture masterminded by Nyesom Wike to retrace their steps, considering that this singular act could attract futuristic destructive effects. Ipob  was intimated with the information regarding Governor Wike’s plan, which includes conditional future promises and haven gone through these moves realized that Wike will abandon them in future because he cannot be in charge of Rivers State beyond his tenure as a current governor.

“It is a known fact that the Imo State government failed in their obligations as it concerns the predicaments they are facing in that area but they must forget Wike with his satanic offer. Wike’s deceptive offer would harm them and their children in the future as such may not be sustainable by successive governments. Moreover, the Biafra restoration approaches hastily.

“Ipob is advising them to retrace their steps and watch what God almighty has in stock for them. Changing God almighty’s plans for children will harm the communities in the future and for God to have placed you where you are today does not mean that he has abandoned you.

“The communities or anybody persuading them to change their state of origin identity and be acquired like slaves with cash value of N150,000 is evil. It must be treated as criminal because we don’t see where old men and women, youths and educated people would allow such an undocumented territorial treaty due to hunger and abandonment."