{"id":49262,"date":"2021-05-26T21:58:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T20:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=49262"},"modified":"2021-05-26T21:58:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T20:58:24","slug":"niger-delta-group-condemns-abduction-of-iyc-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/niger-delta-group-condemns-abduction-of-iyc-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger Delta Group Condemns Abduction Of IYC President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A group under the auspices of Niger Delta Activist group, (NDAG) has described as unfortunate and sad the kidnapping of Ijaw Youth Council, (IYC) President, Comrade Peter Igbifa, along East West road on 25th of March, 2021.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The National Coordinator of NDAG, and the Regional Coordinator of All progressive congress, APC, strategic Communication, Chief Izzi Yakia in a chat with newsmen, in Yenagoa, condemned the act in it&#8217;s entirety.<\/div>\n<div>Our correspondent \u00a0reports \u00a0that, the President, of Ijaw Youth Council IYC worldwide, Deacon Peter Igbifa was abducted along East West road, yesterday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Yakia who noted in dismay how friendly and sincere the abducted IYC leader is, used the opportunity to plead with the youths to go and look for their leader.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He said, &#8220;it is so sad and very unfortunate, Comrade Peter Igbifa is my good friend, a Comrade in the struggle, \u00a0and so sad that he was kidnapped.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;I was so shocked because I know his advocacy, and position in the Ijaw struggle. Indeed, he is a sincere personality.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;But the truth is that, it is a national security issue. IYC is a global, trans regional organization, that stands for the Ijaw youths and Ijaw people.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The case is a call for concern, but its unfortunate, at this level of our questioning to the issues, the State Security Services and Nigeria police have not come out to tell us the true position.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8221; So Ijaw youths should go and look for their leader, its very sad that today we are looking for our leader.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group under the auspices of Niger Delta Activist group, (NDAG) has described as unfortunate and sad the kidnapping of Ijaw Youth Council, (IYC) President, Comrade Peter Igbifa, along East West road on 25th of March, 2021.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":23793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1593,17],"tags":[8651,6609],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-49262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-metro","category-news","tag-niger-delta-group","tag-the-ijaw-youths-council"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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