In a statement released today, Chief Tony C. Okocha, the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, has expressed ...
In a statement released today, Chief Tony C. Okocha, the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, has expressed "Painful Satisfaction" over President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's decision to declare a state of emergency in Rivers State.
According to Chief Okocha, the declaration was the "best of all possible decisions to checkmate the brewing circumstances of economic sabotage and general anomie that were trickling and bedeviling the peace in Rivers State."
The APC Chairman recalled the meeting held between President Tinubu and critical stakeholders in Rivers State at the State House in Abuja, where an 8-Point Resolution was reached to bring relative peace to the state. However, he lamented that the then-Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, "disregarded all these and publicly boasted that he holds the ace, and would decide the faith of 27 Assembly members who in his thoughts, are appendages to the Executive Arm and under the hard nose of his whims and caprices."
Citing a series of court judgments that were blatantly disregarded by the former governor, Chief Okocha described Fubara as a "civilian despot and rascal hiding under the cloak of section 308 of the constitution (immunity)."
The APC Chairman expressed "Painful Satisfaction" with the declaration of the state of emergency, stating that it was a "timeous decision" to address the deteriorating situation in Rivers State, where non-state actors had threatened to "bomb pipelines and strangulate the Nation's economy and engage in lawlessness" if the former governor was impeached.
Chief Okocha congratulated President Tinubu on the decision and pledged the APC's unalloyed support for the newly appointed Sole Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas (Rtd), to help realize the President's "good intentions" for the state.
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