As Nigeria grapple with the rising challenge of insecurity, the need for all ethnic nationalities to be on a united front to tackle the problem has been stressed.
This view was canvassed by major Ijaw stakeholders in Yenagoa the Bayelsa State, the capital during the Ijaw National Congress election in which Professor Benjamin Okaba emerged as helmsman of the Pan-Ijaw body.
Nigeria, a country with world’s the largest black population has lately been on hedge over increasing security problem which is threatening it’s very fabric.
Against this background, stakeholders of Ijaw extraction while airing their views on the State of the Nation at the just concluded Ijaw National Congress election In Yenagoa, Bayelsa state, believe united front irrespective of differences and the sound electoral system could be the magic wand.
Professor of Sociology, Benjamin Okaba, who has been elected as National President of INC, and others in his executive said that the Ijaws will no longer be silent in the quest for a better Nigeria.
Okaba defeated three other contestants including first runner-up Fredrick Owotorufa and former Ijaw Youth President, Chris Ekiyor, to clinch the number one position.
