RIVERS CRISIS: WHY I WON'T BLAME PRESIDENT TINUBU
March 20, 2025 | News
RIVERS CRISIS: WHY I WON'T BLAME PRESIDENT TINUBU
-By Zik Gbemre
RIVERS CRISIS: WHY I WON'T BLAME PRESIDENT TINUBU
I won't blame Bola Ahmed Tinubu on this. He called both parties involved in River State to the Presidential Villa and we are told a written agreement was signed by both parties, and we are told Governor Siminalayi Fubara didn't implement his own side.
The President said he tried publicly and privately to resolve the disagreements between the Governor and 27 lawmakers but it didn't work.
Let us face the fact squarely. Tinubi didn't force Governor Fubara to break down River state legislative building. That is the height of abuse of power. Being a governor doesn't give him the audacity to break a different arm of government's building.
Was Gov Siminalayi Fubara drunk when he sent bulldozers to break River State legislative building for personal ego? No person knew what he would have done the day he visited the building that the lawmakers were sitting if the gate was open.
May be he would have ordered his thugs to beat up 27 lawmakers against him. There are processes to follow. He won't just drive to the River State Legislative Quarters. He should have properly informed them.
He just asked his illegal appointees to write the lawmakers. What stops him from signing the letter when he is fully aware that his appointees were not approved by the River State Legislature.
I want to ask Gov Siminalayi Fubara, so it is constitutional to demolish River State House of Assembly building? It is constitutional to appoint commissioners without approval of the Legislature?
It is constitutional to spend state money without approval of River State Legislature? Does Gov Fubara have the constitutional power to undermine Supreme Court judgement? No.
They say, "he who comes to equity must come with clean hands". Tinubu's action is to save the state from burning further hence both parties were asked to go for 6 months vacation. Those who are praising Fubara for being autocratic are not helping him and River State.
On Sunday 16th March, 2025 evening precisely I had discussion with a Deltan politician who said if it were him as governor of River state he would have pursued the 27 lawmakers from the state.
This are kinds of words they are telling Gov Fubara. It is only a moron that will set his house on fire and beg his neighbours to help to extinguish the fire. Fubara is the governor of his state and it is his duty to use a lot of natural wisdom to handle this matter.
All these boasting of blowing up pipelines are not necessary. Why should a reasonable person destroy Port Harcourt that is one city state of Rivers because of avoidable anger. It will be on record that when Fubara was governor, River state burnt to ashes.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu acted for nerves to calm down. The Attorney General of Federation (AGF) is in position to talk of legality of state of emergency being declared or any aggrieved party can approach the court.
Will Gov Fubara approach the same Supreme Court he refused to obey their judgements. Fubara and 27 lawmakers should apply natural wisdom rather than taking useless advice from those who don't want the wellbeing of Port-Harcourt and the entire River State.
This is not the first time we are seeing state of emergency being declared in Nigeria.This is not the first time we are seeing a governor or speaker being impeached in Nigeria. As for militants who threatened to blow pipelines, it is unnecessary rascality.
Fubara should have avoided the crises but he didn't. Instead he relied on people who misled him. The state will suffer more if care is not taken. Unless they want to drive away private businesses from Port-Harcourt and River State
Zik Gbemre
March 20,2025
We Mobilize Others To Fight For Individual Causes As If Those Were Our Causes.
RIVERS CRISIS: WHY I WON'T BLAME PRESIDENT TINUBU
I won't blame Bola Ahmed Tinubu on this. He called both parties involved in River State to the Presidential Villa and we are told a written agreement was signed by both parties, and we are told Governor Siminalayi Fubara didn't implement his own side.
The President said he tried publicly and privately to resolve the disagreements between the Governor and 27 lawmakers but it didn't work.
Let us face the fact squarely. Tinubi didn't force Governor Fubara to break down River state legislative building. That is the height of abuse of power. Being a governor doesn't give him the audacity to break a different arm of government's building.
Was Gov Siminalayi Fubara drunk when he sent bulldozers to break River State legislative building for personal ego? No person knew what he would have done the day he visited the building that the lawmakers were sitting if the gate was open.
May be he would have ordered his thugs to beat up 27 lawmakers against him. There are processes to follow. He won't just drive to the River State Legislative Quarters. He should have properly informed them.
He just asked his illegal appointees to write the lawmakers. What stops him from signing the letter when he is fully aware that his appointees were not approved by the River State Legislature.
I want to ask Gov Siminalayi Fubara, so it is constitutional to demolish River State House of Assembly building? It is constitutional to appoint commissioners without approval of the Legislature?
It is constitutional to spend state money without approval of River State Legislature? Does Gov Fubara have the constitutional power to undermine Supreme Court judgement? No.
They say, "he who comes to equity must come with clean hands". Tinubu's action is to save the state from burning further hence both parties were asked to go for 6 months vacation. Those who are praising Fubara for being autocratic are not helping him and River State.
On Sunday 16th March, 2025 evening precisely I had discussion with a Deltan politician who said if it were him as governor of River state he would have pursued the 27 lawmakers from the state.
This are kinds of words they are telling Gov Fubara. It is only a moron that will set his house on fire and beg his neighbours to help to extinguish the fire. Fubara is the governor of his state and it is his duty to use a lot of natural wisdom to handle this matter.
All these boasting of blowing up pipelines are not necessary. Why should a reasonable person destroy Port Harcourt that is one city state of Rivers because of avoidable anger. It will be on record that when Fubara was governor, River state burnt to ashes.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu acted for nerves to calm down. The Attorney General of Federation (AGF) is in position to talk of legality of state of emergency being declared or any aggrieved party can approach the court.
Will Gov Fubara approach the same Supreme Court he refused to obey their judgements. Fubara and 27 lawmakers should apply natural wisdom rather than taking useless advice from those who don't want the wellbeing of Port-Harcourt and the entire River State.
This is not the first time we are seeing state of emergency being declared in Nigeria.This is not the first time we are seeing a governor or speaker being impeached in Nigeria. As for militants who threatened to blow pipelines, it is unnecessary rascality.
Fubara should have avoided the crises but he didn't. Instead he relied on people who misled him. The state will suffer more if care is not taken. Unless they want to drive away private businesses from Port-Harcourt and River State
Zik Gbemre
March 20,2025
We Mobilize Others To Fight For Individual Causes As If Those Were Our Causes.