{"id":155147,"date":"2025-03-13T20:17:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T19:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/rivers-well-shock-you-if-fubara-is-impeached-ijaw-traditional-group-tells-tinubu"},"modified":"2025-03-25T20:43:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T19:43:55","slug":"rivers-well-shock-you-if-fubara-is-impeached-ijaw-traditional-group-tells-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-well-shock-you-if-fubara-is-impeached-ijaw-traditional-group-tells-tinubu","title":{"rendered":"Rivers: We\u2019ll shock you if Fubara is impeached \u2013 Ijaw traditional group tells Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A traditional institution of the Ijaw people, the Supreme Egbesu Assembly, SEA, has warned that it would shock President Bola Ahmed Tinubu if Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara is impeached.<\/p>\n<p>The institution, through its chairman, Werinipre Noel Digifa, issued this warning while reacting to a recent statement by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, who declared that heaven would not fall if Fubara were removed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeaven will not fall if Fubara is impeached. We won\u2019t resort to violence either. But at the appropriate time, we will let President Tinubu know what one of his \u2018best eleven\u2019 has done to the Ijaw people,\u201d Digifa stated.<\/p>\n<p>Digifa faulted President Tinubu for allegedly failing to rein in Wike, whom he accused of displaying recklessness and arrogance toward the Ijaw nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTinubu should be held responsible for Wike\u2019s actions. He has turned the judiciary into his personal estate, manipulating it to suit his desires. Wike preempted the Supreme Court judgment, and it went exactly as he wanted,\u201d he alleged.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, despite their grievances, the Ijaw people would not resort to violence if Fubara is removed from office.<\/p>\n<p>Digifa condemned what he described as Wike\u2019s crass arrogance and verbal attacks on the Ijaw ethnic nationality, referencing an African proverb to caution against reckless confrontation.<\/p>\n<p>He, therefore, blamed former President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience Jonathan, for supporting Wike\u2019s rise to power, arguing that they ignored more credible candidates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A traditional institution of the Ijaw people, the Supreme Egbesu Assembly, SEA, has warned that it would shock President Bola Ahmed Tinubu if Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara is impeached. The institution, through its chairman, Werinipre Noel Digifa, issued this warning while reacting to a recent statement by the Minister of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":155146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[10074,254,421,945],"class_list":["post-155147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-fubara","tag-nigeria","tag-rivers","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rivers: We\u2019ll shock you if Fubara is impeached \u2013 Ijaw traditional group tells Tinubu - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A traditional institution of the Ijaw people, the Supreme Egbesu Assembly, SEA, has warned that it would shock President ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-well-shock-you-if-fubara-is-impeached-ijaw-traditional-group-tells-tinubu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rivers: We\u2019ll shock you if Fubara is impeached \u2013 Ijaw traditional group tells Tinubu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A traditional institution of the Ijaw people, the Supreme Egbesu Assembly, SEA, has warned that it would shock President ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-well-shock-you-if-fubara-is-impeached-ijaw-traditional-group-tells-tinubu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-03-13T19:17:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-03-25T19:43:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1741885673.970312.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-well-shock-you-if-fubara-is-impeached-ijaw-traditional-group-tells-tinubu#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-well-shock-you-if-fubara-is-impeached-ijaw-traditional-group-tells-tinubu\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Rivers: We\u2019ll shock you if Fubara is impeached \u2013 Ijaw traditional group tells Tinubu\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-13T19:17:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-03-25T19:43:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-well-shock-you-if-fubara-is-impeached-ijaw-traditional-group-tells-tinubu\"},\"wordCount\":270,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-well-shock-you-if-fubara-is-impeached-ijaw-traditional-group-tells-tinubu#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1741885673.970312.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Fubara\",\"Nigeria\",\"Rivers\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-well-shock-you-if-fubara-is-impeached-ijaw-traditional-group-tells-tinubu#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-well-shock-you-if-fubara-is-impeached-ijaw-traditional-group-tells-tinubu\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-well-shock-you-if-fubara-is-impeached-ijaw-traditional-group-tells-tinubu\",\"name\":\"Rivers: We\u2019ll shock you if Fubara is impeached \u2013 Ijaw traditional group tells Tinubu - 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