Niger Delta Takeover Continues — Okaba Sounds Warning in Rivers State

Niger Delta residents have been cautioned by Benjamin Okaba, president of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), to stay vigilant and oppose the divide and conquer strategy being used in the area.
The political crisis in Rivers State is a planned state capture that the masterminds intend to enact throughout the Niger Delta, according to sociology professor Okaba.
According to reports, this was said by Professor Okaba on Thursday at Rivers State’s News Central Town Hall.

He said, “I will speak as a professor of sociology; let me disappoint those who expect me to speak as the president of the Ijaw National Congress.” He continued, “I have heard all of the contributions, and it is not surprising that we are a divided house.”

Rivers Matter is a sign of a broken political system, according to the president of INC. What you mean when you say “state capture” is not the conquest of River State, but rather the Niger Delta.

He says the region’s vast oil riches are the reason for the plot to seize it. According to him, the federal government would have easy access to the region’s resources if the policy of divide and conquer was implemented, pitting the local populace against one another.

The reason for this is that our region is extremely wealthy, the divide and conquer strategy, the balkanization strategy, and the strategy of forcing us to fight against ourselves have all been enacted over time. He added, “The federal government will start to exploit our resources while we clap hands for those persons when there is a crisis that is planned using our own people to cause the crisis, just like during the colonial period.”

He emphasized that there is no connection between ethnic differences and the Rivers situation.

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Because of this, I make every effort as president of the Ijaw National Congress to declare whenever I have the chance that this is not an ethnic crisis. And the Niger Delta’s enemies are those who wish to give it ethnic coloration,” he said.

He urged everyone in the Niger Delta to stand together and denounced those in power who are using the people of the area to further their own political agendas.