I just undertook a tour of some parts of Rivers State. It was amazing to discover that anyone in Rivers State who does not care to read today’s
newspapers may not even be aware that the state he lives in is the same one being
widely reported as presently "engulfed in great, boundless crises capable
of derailing the nation's democracy."
Rivers State Governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi
The people I saw in Rivers State were too busy undertaking
their normal daily engagements, struggling to put food on their tables (like
other Nigerians elsewhere) to bother about the loads of inane, self-serving
exchanges by grossly over-fed, light-minded and ultra-selfish delinquents that
dominate the pages of the newspapers daily.
Forget the rented crowds! If you ask me: the
"war" in Rivers State exists only in the minds of (and among) these misguided
combatants fighting to out-smart each other in the endless desperation to
corner Nigerian resources to themselves and impoverish the masses the more –
the same masses they claim to be fighting for.
