{"id":17352,"date":"2018-01-01T19:45:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T19:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=17352"},"modified":"2018-01-01T19:56:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T19:56:55","slug":"ijaw-youths-slam-garba-shehu-says-ijaw-population-more-than-fulani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=17352","title":{"rendered":"IJAW YOUTHS SLAM GARBA SHEHU SAYS IJAW POPULATION MORE THAN FULANI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">IJAW YOUTH COUNCIL (IYC) WORLDWIDE<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Press Release<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1890384548\"><span class=\"aQJ\">1st JANUARY 2018<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>GARBA SHEHU&#8217;S MISREPRESENTATION OF FACTS: ITSEKIRIS ARE NOT BIGGER THAN IJAW<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The attention of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide has been drawn to a rather annoying and provocative umbrage by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Garba Shehu.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0The said media aid to the President who was featured in Channels TV yesterday the 31st of December, 2017 has erroneously said without any basis or foundation that the Itsekiri ethnic group is bigger than the Ijaw ethnic group in Delta State. While it is not our concern to probe what informed Garba&#8217;s argument, our concern is the baseless misrepresentation of facts ostensibly to incite the Ijaws against our Itsekiri brothers.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">There is no iota of truth whatsoever in Garba Shehu&#8217;s wrong placement of facts and figures in the Delta State population. As a public figure, he should be guided by the available and undisputed official datas within his domain other than to talk like a novice in government.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Going by either the 2006 census figures or the available voting datas, the Ijaw ethnic group is the second largest ethnic group in Delta State. The Ijaw nation as the 4th largest ethnic group in Nigeria has a population of fourteen million people which constitutes 10% of the Nigerian population. The Ijaws are even more populous than the Fulani ethnic group who constitutes 9% of the Country&#8217;s population.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=15542&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">In Delta State, the Ijaws have three homogeneous local government areas that are densily populated, while they are in majority in two other local government areas they shared with the Itsekiri ethnic group. The Ijaws are in six local government areas, while the Itsekiris are just in three local government areas which they shared two with Ijaw people and the other one with Urhobo and Ijaw.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">How on earth do people who are just in three local government areas and who do not have any single homogeneous local government area become more populated than people who are in six local government areas with three homogeneous local government areas?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Garba Shehu should know that it was this same callous and incisive decision of the Abacha Government that caused the bloody Warri crisis. His statement on the Channels TV about the Ijaw and Itsekiri population has a dangerous implication to the relative peace we are enjoying. Such unguided utterances by a public figure like Garba Shehu may spark off another ethnic crisis in the Niger Delta.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">For the sake of peace in the region, we call on him to retract his statement about the Ijaw and Itsekiri population in Delta State with immediate effect. If he wants to learn, he should not use Delta State or any part of \u00a0the Niger Delta region for his internship course. We warn him to stay clear of Delta State for the sake of our peaceful coexistence.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Signed:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Pereotubo Oweilaemi, Esq.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>IYC President, Worldwide<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IJAW YOUTH COUNCIL (IYC) WORLDWIDE Press Release 1st JANUARY 2018 GARBA SHEHU&#8217;S MISREPRESENTATION OF FACTS: ITSEKIRIS ARE NOT BIGGER THAN IJAW The attention of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide has been drawn to a rather annoying and provocative umbrage by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Garba Shehu. 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