After meeting with Governor Sim Fubara, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FTC), Nyesom Wike, and other stakeholders, Dele Momodu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed concern over President Bola Tinubu’s orders on the resolution of the Rivers State conflict.
Allub Times reports that one of the resolutions reached was that all impeachment processes begun by the State House of Assembly against Governor Fubara be discontinued immediately.
Furthermore, any judicial proceedings initiated by Governor Fubara and his staff must be abandoned immediately, and the governor must no longer interfere with the full funding of the State Assembly.
Another motion adopted at the conference was that the Rivers Assembly’s leadership, led by Martin Amaewhule, be recognized alongside the 27 members who resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
It was also decided that the Rivers State House of Assembly would be free to sit anywhere they wanted and perform legislative work without intervention or hindrance from the Executive branch of government.
It was resolved that the Rivers Governor re-present the state budget for 2024 to a properly constituted Rivers State House of Assembly and that the names of all commissioners who resigned their appointments due to the state’s political crisis be resubmitted to the House of Assembly for approval.
In response to the news, Dele Momodu, in an Instagram post, stated that President Tinubu cannot preside over crises at both the state and federal levels, as well as internal bickering among opposition groups.
According to the experienced journalist, it is yet another effort to impose a one-party dictatorship on Nigeria, and the opposition parties must forcefully resist it.
He noted that Tinubu would have been acclaimed if he had had the bravery and fairness to summon Wike and operate as a federal Minister rather than messing with Rivers State concerns.
He said, “No President can be a Headmaster of both State and Federal…What manner of Democracy are we practicing that allows a President to intervene in the internal affairs of opposition parties and over-rules the Constitution unchallenged, and our politicians comply as if they are in a slave camp… Opposition parties must vehemently oppose this brazen attempt at forcing a one party dictatorship on Nigeria. The directives to RIVERS STATE by a Federal President is really absurd in legal terms…
“GOVERNOR BOLA AHMED TINUBU fought endlessly for the fundamental rights and the independence of Lagos State against the interference of PRESIDENT OLUSEGUN OBASANJO between 1999 and 2007, and went as far as the Supreme Court.
“The Governor of Rivers State has the full rights to defend his state against the suffocating strangulation of any godfather in the overriding interest of his people… Those defending the ongoing rascality neither know their contemporary history nor appreciate what freedom entails… No President can summarily reverse the decision of a legal process that seeks to protect the sanctity of separation of powers… TINUBU would have been applauded if he had the courage and fairness to call his querulous benefactor NYESOM WIKE to order, and getting him to work as a federal Minister. No soul could have done to WIKE what he’s doing to FUBARA today.”
