A group in southern Nigeria, the Niger Delta Situation Room has condemned orchestrated protests against the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory ( FCT), Chief Barr. Ezenwo Nyeso Wike, describing it as being sponsored by enemies of Nigeria.

The group in a swift reaction to the protests at the National Assembly on Wednesday 6th December, calling for the resignation of the FCT Minister, described the organizers of the protests as political jobbers and members of the criminal cartel that held the FCT and the FCDA in a vice grip, engaging in both land racketeering and embezzlement of funds running into billions of naira from the FCT.

The group in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Senibo Isaac Green, disclosed that person’s from a particular section of the country has been having sleepless nights ever since the FCT Minister, upon his appointment, rolled up his sleeves and went to work committed to clean up the auguean stable of sleeze and corruption which the FCT had been turned into.

The Niger Delta Situation Room noted that the protesters and their sponsors panicked by Wike’s famed no nonsense attitude and dedication to work, has resorted to all manner of campaigns of blackmail and calumny to distract Wike.

“Earlier we had seen a resort to wiping up religious and ethnic sentiments against the Minister and the spreading of unfounded lies and baseless propaganda, all in a bid to cast the FCT Minister in a bad light”.

The group refuted claims the Abuja hired protesters that the indigenous people of the FCT were unhapoy with the land reforms instituted by Wike, to recover lands recklessly stolen from both the indigenes and the government, describing it as a bare faced lie born out of wishful thinking and promoted by fears that the years of misdeed by the cabal of land racketeerers, will be exposed by Wike.

The group wondered why the security agencies has chosen to turn a blind eye to the neferous activities of these agents doom and darkness and their sponsors, who are vehement in pushing the country into the abyss of chaos and anarchy.

The Niger Delta Situation Room disclosed that it may be forced to march into Abuja if the unwarranted and ethnic inspired campaign to impugn and bring Wike down is not checked.

“We wish to sound it loud and clear that Wike is not going anywhere. He will remian in his office and discharg the duties and responsibilities assigned to him by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Wike has continued to demonstrate competence and an iron will to discharge his duties. Those who believe that Nigeria belongs to them should leave him alone to work”, the group concluded.