Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike and the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero, have held crucial meeting on insecurity and other challenges threatening mutual co-existence in the country.
Governor Wike in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media, Kelvin Ebiri, told the Emir that he was not in support of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF)’s endorsement of fresh withdrawal of fund by the Federal Government from the Excess Crude Account (ECA) to fight insecurity.
The governor wondered what happened to the One billion dollars withdrawn from ECA in 2017 to fight Boko Haram insurgents in the North-East.
He made it clear that he would only support the move for fresh withdrawal if Rivers State would be given its 13 per cent share from the account.
The Rivers State Governor reminded the Emir how his late father and other leaders in their time worked hard in promoting love, peace and national unity among Nigerians, regretting that current political and religious leaders were not building on such past successes.
He said that they were rather reducing every relationship, appointment, policy and programme of government to political and religious considerations.
Governor Wike insisted that Nigeria belongs to everybody and no section could assert itself over others, adding that he had provided conducive environment to all ethnic groups in Rivers State to coexist.
He said this is the first time in Nigeria when there is so much ethnic divide, so much religious divide, and that it has never happened like that before.
The governor accused heads of security agencies, particularly the Inspection-General of Police of politicising security by posting Commissioners of Police to the State on the order of a politician in the ruling party.
In his remarks, the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero said his visit to Rivers State was part of his fraternal tour to national leaders and traditional institutions across the country.
