Panic grips Rivers State as the Niger Delta Rescue Movement (NDRM), an armed militant group, orders non-indigenes to leave, warning of imminent violence over the state’s political turmoil.
In a video circulating online, gunmen brandishing AK-47s vowed to disrupt Nigeria’s oil production unless the federal government releases Rivers’ withheld allocation. The Supreme Court recently upheld a freeze on the state’s funds, tied to a power struggle between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and lawmakers aligned with his rival, Minister Nyesom Wike.
The militants urged President Bola Tinubu to intervene, calling the crisis a “coordinated effort to incite hell.” With tensions escalating, their message was blunt: resolve the standoff, or face economic consequences.
