Mr.  Nyesom Wike, the Rivers State Governor, has been berated by  the Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC,  for declaring his state a Christian State.
Wike speaking at a Christian event organized by the Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Church in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital, said Rivers state is a Christian state.
Angry with the Governor, the group in a statement signed by Mr. Ishaq Akintola, the group Director, said the governor’s statement is ”audacious, unguarded and reckless.”
Part of the statement reads, “at a time when Nigeria is facing religious and ethnic crises, a state governor still has the temerity to declare his state a Christian state. Wike is short in intellect, long in impunity. It is not his first time of making this pronouncement. We ignored him the first time because we did not want to dignify him with a response. But he has just exposed himself as an analogue governor with a triangular approach to all problems: religion, violence and impunity. Wike cannot think outside this triangular box.