* Urges Gov to stop ‘blackmailing’ Tinubu
By Chesa Chesa
As the political crisis in Rivers State rages, the All Progressives Congress (APC) says the State Governor, Sim Fubara, is an investment made by his predecessor, Nyesom Wike, which must not be allowed to waste.
A battle for the control of the State has pitched Fubara against Wike, who is currently the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory.
Delving into the matter on Friday, Chairman of the party in Rivers State, Tony Okocha, during a news conference at the APC headquarters in Abuja, said no one in his right mind would make a huge investment and allow it to go down the drain.
“Wike brought Fubara to where he is today. He lifted him from obscurity to political crescendo. Nobody is suffocating anybody. The fight in Rivers state is between Sim Fubara and Sim Fubara”, Okocha stressed.
He also advised Fubara to stop blackmailing President Bola Tinubu, Wike and the Judiciary over the recent judgment stopping allocation of federal funds to Rivers State, saying that sentiments would not save the Governor’s political career.
The APC chiettain who is overseeing a caretaker committee that will usher in new executive officials in the State next month, argued that the political crisis in Rivers would have since ended if Fubara had respected Tinubu’s intervention and obeyed the terms of a peace deal he engineered earlier in the year.
He declared that the way out now is for Fubara to obey the law of the land, the courts and the judgement concerning passage of the State’s budget.
His words: “Sections 120, 121, 122 speak to this issue regarding budget clearly.
“As a political party, we stand with and by the judgment of the court because it is what will hold sway in the civil society, it is the court, not one man morality.
“We are also using this opportunity to speak against attempts to disparage innocent persons namely; Nyesom Wike, the FCT Minister. In all the cases in court, there are about 32 cases in which he is not a party to any. Why bring in the President?”
