Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has said that President Muhammadu Buhari values the life of cows more than he does Nigerians.
According to him, President Buhari is not showing interest in the recent killing in Benue. He said that in some other countries the president would have visited the area to assess the situation even if the lives lost were fewer in number.
“Human lives are not respected. In fact, the lives of cows and chicken appear to be more important than human lives,” he told the Anglican Bishops of Niger Delta Province who visited him at the Government House Friday.
“This has nothing to do with politics. Let us not trivialise the catastrophe that has befallen Nigeria,” he added.
The governor then urged the clerics and the church to show interest in the Nigeria’s politics.
“If you don’t participate in what is happening through voting, the country will degenerate further. People should acquire their permanent voter’s card to enthrone the leadership they desire,” he said.
Rivers has been a hot spot of political and cult-related violence since the 2045 election the APC lost to Wike’s PDP.
No fewer than 17 people in Omoku were killed by gunmen on New Year Day.
The APC has been accusing the governor of sponsoring cultists in the state.
Wike told the Anglican bishops that his state ceased to be the focus of the APC-controlled federal government because of “mass insecurity across the country”.
“Those things they planned to use in declaring a state of emergency in Rivers State fell on their own states and it became difficult to do so,” he said.
“When you sit and plot evil against Rivers State, you will not know peace. If they don’t apologise for plotting and executing evil against Rivers State, they will never know peace.”
Wike said his administration plans to set up a Christian Trust Fund to cater for indigent clerics. A proposal to that effect was already in the 2018 budget of the state.
Led by Anglican Archbishop of Niger Delta Province Ignatius Kattey, the bishops told the governor that they were in the Government House to thank him for his role in the success of the Anglican Synod.