Rivers crisis: Call Wike to order – INC urges Tinubu

The Ijaw National Congress (INC) worldwide has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to telephone the FCT Minister, Mr Nyesom Wike, to bid implicit lingering crises successful Rivers.

Prof Benjamin Okaba, President, INC, made the entreaty astatine a quality league connected Tuesday successful Abuja.

Wike and Gov. Siminialayi Fubara are astatine loggerheads implicit the power of governmental machinery successful the oil-rich state.

Okaba said INC was acrophobic that if near unchecked the governmental situation could impact different parts of the country.

‘’Mr President, sir, arsenic the begetter of the nation, the change ego of Nigeria, we are fervently appealing to you to telephone the FCT Minister to order.

“This is for the involvement of bid and information successful Nigeria. Stop this drift towards nationalist disintegration and anarchy now’’, helium said.

Okaba alleged that Wike’s powerfulness tussle with Fubara mightiness not beryllium unconnected with the minister’s tendency to heighten Tinubu’s electoral fortunes successful the adjacent wide polls.

‘’We recognize the dictates of authorities and the request to harvest Rivers votes for the President’s 2nd tenure elections.

“What we misunderstand is the thought that lone the FCT curate tin assistance the President to triumph Rivers’’, Okoba said.

He said Fubara had been faithful to Tinubu’s 8-point directive to some parties during the struggle solution gathering held successful Abuja.

‘’In October 2023 you called stakeholders to a gathering and tabled an 8-point directive to each parties progressive to instrumentality bid to Rivers.

‘’Whereas galore of our radical considered your 8-Point directive arsenic manifestly slanted against the governor’s involvement and successful favour of the FCT minister, the politician acceded to it,’’ helium said.

Okaba said that portion politician acted successful bully religion with respect to the directive, the curate acted different by refusing to retreat the tribunal cases instituted by him.

He added that little than 3 weeks aft the Presidential directives, Martins Amaewhule led 25 members the Rivers House of Assembly to defect to the absorption All People’s Congress.

On the just-held section authorities predetermination successful the state, Okaba said that portion Fubara obeyed Supreme Court bid that Local Government Areas successful Nigeria indispensable beryllium administered by elected officers, without which funds indispensable beryllium withheld.

He said Fubara worked assiduous to actualise the instrumentality of elected officers to the section authorities areas successful accordance with Tinubu’s desires and backed by the Supreme Court judgement.

He besides said that Fubara holds imperishable olive branches, sending changeless bid emissaries to the FCT minister.

‘’So again we entreaty to Mr President to telephone the FCT curate to bid arsenic a stitch successful time, they accidental saves nine,’’ helium said.