The crisis between the Rivers Assembly and Governor Fubara has surpassed an unimaginable impasse.
This week, the assembly members loyal to the FCT minister have accused the governor of gross misconduct, but the governor is talking tough on how to sideline or decrease their volume of antagonism toward him, Find out what the governor is saying below.
This river crisis is not end on sight.
Fubara said the Peace Accord he signed with his predecessor, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, was political, hence he can derecognize them as lawmakers.
He spoke while addressing a delegation of political and traditional leaders from Bayelsa State who visited him at the Government House in Port Harcourt, the state capital, to seek an end to the political crisis in Rivers State and an improved relationship between both states. This river crisis is not end on sight. The Rivers Assembly is biting more than they can chew.
The Rivers Assembly is biting more than they can chew
Governor Fubara told the delegation which was led by the former Governor of Bayelsa State and Senator representing Bayelsa West, Henry Siriake Dickson, that he has been the one showing restraint since the crisis escalated in the state.
He said despite wielding state powers that he can deploy to achieve his aim, he has continued to act as the big brother in the face of intimidation and unwarranted attacks.
He said, “Those groups of men who claim that are Assembly members are not Assembly members, they do not exist. I want it to be on record. I accepted that Peace Accord to give them a floating. That is the truth. There was nothing in that Peace Accord that’s a constitutional issue; it’s a political solution to a problem. And I accepted it because these were people who were eating in my house, these were people I had helped pay their children’s school fees when I wasn’t even a governor. So, what is the thing there?
“We might have our division but I believe that one day, we could also come together but it has gotten to a time when I have to make a statement that they are not existing.
“Their existence is me allowing them to exist. If I de-recognize them, they are nowhere. I want you to see the sacrifice I have made in allowing peace to reign in our state.”
The Rivers Assembly is biting more than they can chew.
