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.
The governor said he would only support the move for fresh withdrawal if Rivers State would be given its 13 per cent share from the account. Wike reminded the Emir how his late father and other leaders in their time worked hard in promoting love, peace and national unity among Nigerians.He expressed regrets that current political and religious leaders were not building on such past successes.He said they were rather reducing every relationship, appointment, policy and programme of government to political and religious considerations.
“This is the first time in Nigeria when we have so much ethnic divide, so much religious divide. It has never happened like this before. After the civil war, people had seen Nigeria as one country. We have seen ourselves as the same people but what we are facing today is a different thing. 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 institution across the country.
He said: “We have therefore made it a point every time we meet with traditional or political leaders across the country to ask them to do all within their powers to make the challenges of today’s life a bit more bearable for the common man.”