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APC Faults Governor Fubara On Rivers Crisis

POSTED ON June 21, 2024 •   POLITICS      BY Benedicta Bassey
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara/ Photo credit: Premiumtimes

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has indicted the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, following series of crises in the state.

The party noted that the supreme architect of the crises in the state, Fubara needed to be taught some basic democratic ethos.

The APC alleged that Governor Fubara is misusing public funds without legislative approval, undermining Rivers people’s rights to accountable governance.

This statement came as a result of the recent protest in the state with the Nigeria Police, on Thursday, barricading local government secretariats in Rivers State to prevent a breakdown of law and order. 
The police however said it would continue to do so until a court of competent jurisdiction decide otherwise. 

But Fubara maintained Rivers State was not under siege, saying Rivers people are enjoying a peaceful environment under his administration.

Reacting, the National Publicity Secretary of APC, Felix Morka, in a statement, described PDP’s claims about its planned forceful dislodgement from Rivers State as ridiculous and baseless.

Morka said PDP peddled falsehood about a non-existent plot to interfere with the government of Rivers State instead of giving a crash course to Fubara on the basic tenets of democratic and constitutional governance for the benefit of the Rivers people. 

Morka stated, “Governor Siminalayi Fubara is the supreme architect of the horrific crisis rocking Rivers State. 

“Since assuming office over a year ago, Governor Fubara has displayed reckless disdain for the rule of law and democratic institutions, and conducted his government in flagrant violation of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“In an unprecedented display of autocratic arrogance, Governor Fubara declared the democratically elected Rivers State House of Assembly to be non-existent and, without lawful authority, constituted a bogus and illegal three-man sham Assembly in brazen violation of express provisions of the constitution on the threshold composition of the House of Assembly and in disregard of the separation of powers doctrine.” 

Morka alleged that the governor had continued to expend public funds without lawful appropriation by a duly constituted legislature, thereby undermining the will of the people of Rivers State and their right to effective and accountable democratic governance. 

Morka insisted that the current crisis in Rivers State was contrived and executed by Fubara, who had continued to usurp the legislative powers of the state legislature while contemptuously disregarding valid decisions and orders of courts of competent jurisdiction in critical matters. 

He insisted those were the root causes of the crisis in the state.

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