{"id":32895,"date":"2020-11-28T17:40:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T17:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=32895"},"modified":"2020-11-28T17:40:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T17:40:17","slug":"nobody-can-rename-rivers-state-wike-declares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nobody-can-rename-rivers-state-wike-declares","title":{"rendered":"Nobody can rename Rivers State \u2013 Wike declares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Governor, Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has vowed that nobody can rename any part of the state.<\/p>\n<p>The Governor said this while making veiled reference to the activities of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Wike spoke on Friday at the Government House in Port Harcourt when he played host to a delegation of Tiv people living in Rivers State under the aegis of Mdzough U. Tiv led by Mr. Caleb Yashi.<\/p>\n<p>The Governor called on Tiv people to continue to live peacefully with people of their host communities.<\/p>\n<p>Wike noted that the Tivs have not caused any trouble in Rivers State even though they are warriors, and very strong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRivers State is a place that is very accommodating. We accept everybody to stay with us peacefully. It is only those who want to rename Rivers State that I have said, I will not agree.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody can rename Rivers State. As per living peacefully, we have good relationship with all ethnic nationalities that live in Rivers State.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Governor, Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has vowed that nobody can rename any part of the state. The Governor said this while making veiled reference to the activities of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) in the state. Wike spoke on Friday at the Government House in Port Harcourt when he played [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":32894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,254,689,454],"class_list":["post-32895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-nigeria","tag-rivers-state","tag-wike"],"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>Nobody can rename Rivers State \u2013 Wike declares - Nigeria<\/title>\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\/nobody-can-rename-rivers-state-wike-declares\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nobody can rename Rivers State \u2013 Wike declares\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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