Amid the controversy trailing the intervention of President Bola Tinubu in the crisis rocking Rivers State, human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has said that the President cannot reinstate 27 cross carpeting members of the Rivers State House of Assembly. In a statement on Tuesday, Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), said that presidential interventions must always be grounded in the provisions of the constitution. “With respect, the presidential reinstatement of the 27 cross carpeting members of the Rivers State House of Assembly by the Presidency is alien to the Constitution in every material particular,” Falana said. Rivers State has…
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FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has said that the directives issued Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State as resolution of the political crisis in the state are not only appalling, but also unacceptable, particularly to the Ijaw ethnic nationality. The Ijaw leader said that he was threatening to take legal action against President Bola Tinubu. Clark said Tinubu’s actions have shown his dislike and disdain for the Ijaw people and confirms his hatred for them. He said “as the leader of the Ijaw, we will resist it”. Recall that the directives were given at…
A former governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has asked the All Prigresives Congress (APC) National Chairman, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, to project the party’s manifesto and relate to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the true state of affairs and the feedback from various communities, not the information he gets in the villa. Fayemi, a former chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), made the appeal during the public launch of a book titled, ‘APC and transition politics’ authored by a former national vice chairman (North West) of the APC, Salihu Mohammed Lukman, on Tuesday in Abuja. Powered By VDO.AI…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) asserts that there is no remedy for the 25 former members of the Rivers State House of Assembly who by virtue of Section 109 (1)(g) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) vacated and lost their seats by reason of defection from the PDP, the Party platform upon which they were elected into the House of Assembly. Our Party insists that having now vacated and lost their seats, the only option available for the former lawmakers, if they wish to return to the House of Assembly, is to seek fresh…
There is a development today in a Federal High court in far away Abuja which will affect citizens of Oyo state either directly or otherwise. A Federal High court of the Federal capital territory, presided over by the Hon. Justice A.O Ebong granted an order of garnishee in favour of the Local Government Chairmen elected during the days of late Governor Ajimobi and against the Governor of Oyo state, Seyi Makinde and others. Specifically, the court ordered the freezing of the Accounts of Oyo state in 10 different Banks. The reasonable question that anymore would like to ask is, how…
President Bola Tinubu is currently meeting with the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, the former governor of Rivers State, Sir Peter Odili, and some other stakeholders from the state at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. This is coming on the heels of the face-off between the governor and his predecessor, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike. The FCT Minister was earlier seen at the State House. Although the agenda of the meeting between the President and the protagonists in the Rivers State crisis was not made public at the time of filing this report, it may not…
Almost every Church goers are familiar with the story of the Biblical prodigal son. The chap, son to a very wealthy man had approached his father one day and demanded for his portion of the father’s wealth. The father, bewildered by the bizarre request by his son appealed to him not to tow the perilous path but the misguided son’s mind was made up. Having failed to make his son see reason, the father obliged him and gave him his portion. Feeling fulfilled, the prodigal son left his father’s small village for the big cities where, in no time, he…
If Nyesom Wike had read the character portrait of the Ijaw man as sketched by Dr. Percy Amoury Talbot, an early 20th century British historian and colonial administrator, he would most probably have thought twice before settling for Simnalaya Fubara as his third term placeholder. Wike was a two-term governor of Rivers State and today, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory. In his highly authoritative 1926 book, Peoples of Southern Nigeria: a Sketch of their History, Ethnology, and Languages, with an Abstract of the 1921 Census, Talbot reserved an unflattering description for the no-nonsense Ijaw race. Hear him at page…
Presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 general election said on Saturday that they have all agreed to drop their ambition for the 2027 presidency to pave the way for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s second term bid. Accordingly, the presidential hopefuls have formed a forum known as Forum of 2023 APC Presidential Aspirants, which is billed to be inaugurated tomorrow, Monday, December 18, at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja. The forum disclosed this in a statement signed by its convener/acting chairman and former Zamfara State governor, Senator Ahmed Sani Yerima, and the youngest APC presidential aspirant…
The number of resignations in the Rivers State Executive Council has risen to nine after two more commissioners handed in their resignations following the depature of seven of their colleagues from Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s cabinet. The latest to resign are the Commissioner for Special Projects, Emeka Woke and the Commissioner for Environment, Austen Ben-Chioma. While Woke served as the Chief of Staff to former governor and current FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, Ben-Chioma served as Commissioner for Urban Development in the immediate past administration. Woke was also former Local Government Chairman of Emohua Local Government Area. His letter of resignation is…