The Rivers Ijaw People's Congress, RIPCO, has informed the Ijaw National Congress, INC, that Chief Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, has demonstrated his love for the Ijaw nation, contrary to claims made by some in the wake of Rivers State's political crisis. The RIPCO, which led a team of its leaders to an important meeting with the Prof. Benjamin Okaba-led INC and the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, at Ijaw House in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, stated that the story that Wike despised the Ijaws was
false. He stated that out of love, Wike gave more federal positions he had lured to Rivers to Ijaw leaders, recalling that


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