By Daniel Abia
Stakeholders within the Niger Delta area have expressed differing opinions on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s try to halt the impeachment course of in opposition to the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, and his deputy, Prof. Ngozi Odu, by the State Home of Meeting.
Experiences say President Tinubu instructed the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Barr. Nyesom Wike, to prevail on the Meeting lawmakers to drop the impeachment risk in opposition to the governor and permit peace to return to the state.
Talking on the event, a chieftain of the Pan Niger Delta Elders Discussion board (PANDEF), Chief Anabs Sara-Igbe, mentioned the President’s place on the Rivers State political disaster was complicated, including that “if I have been the governor of Rivers State, there isn’t any manner Wike, a minister, could be the political chief of the state”.
Sara-Igbe famous that the President can’t see “evil” and faux that each one is properly within the state. “We’re not in a navy dictatorship and Rivers persons are not proud of what is going on within the state. All politicians are egocentric and President Tinubu is barely inquisitive about his 2027 re-election ambitions.”
The previous safety adviser to the Rivers State Authorities said that “when Wike was governor, he by no means went to late Muhammadu Buhari for something, so why ought to he be disturbing Sim, making him go to Tinubu each time for assist over the political disaster within the state?”
“President Tinubu is a brilliant politician who is aware of what he needs and goes all out for it,” mentioned Joseph Ambakaderimo, convener of the South-South Reawakening Group (SSRG) and chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT), of the Neighborhood Committee of Oil and Fuel Producing Areas of the Niger Delta States.
Ambakaderimo, who was happy with the President’s transfer to salvage Governor Fubara from one other spherical of impeachment, cautioned that Tinubu “ought to be very cautious about these pushing him in opposition to the FCT Minister, Wike”, including that “Wike is to Tinubu what late Tony Anenih was to former President Obasanjo”.
He alleged that Fubara doesn’t have the capability to garner the variety of votes Wike secured for Tinubu in 2023. “It is just Wike and Fubara who can settle their issues — not the President, not anyone else. I imagine the place the President has taken is for the general good of Rivers State and its individuals.”
On his half, the Chancellor of the Worldwide Society for Social Justice and Human Rights (IJSJHR), Dr Jackson Omenazu, who additionally described President Tinubu’s transfer on Rivers politics as a sensible step, mentioned the President’s model of politics ought to be reviewed for correct understanding.
“If we go by the manifesto of the APC, there isn’t any place for 2 leaders in the identical state. Why can’t Fubara be the political chief of Rivers State? Is that this what occurs in different APC-controlled states? APC management on the nationwide stage shouldn’t sit on the fence on this case.”
Omenazu noticed that the legislation of fairness is totally absent in Rivers State, saying that “Governor Fubara is extremely subjugated. Tinubu’s motion will not be presidential sufficient. He was a governor earlier than. Wike was additionally a governor. Had been they handled the best way they’re treating Fubara at the moment?”
The rights activist famous that solely the nationwide chairman of the APC has the authorized proper to declare who’s a political chief in a state, not the President.
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