Your directives favor solely Nyesom Wike

The Rivers Elders and Leaders Discussion board (RELF), has stated the resolutions reached after President Tinubu’s assembly with Governor Sim Fubara and Nyesom Wike,  are one sided in favor of Wike and that the resolutions can’t override current orders of the courtroom on the difficulty.

In a communique signed by former goveror of Previous Rivers state, Rufus Ada-George, in Port Harcourt final night time after its emergency assembly, the elders acknowledged that the resolutions and directives additionally contravened the Structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which the President swore to uphold.

The communique reads partly

“Rising from an emergency assembly of Rivers Elders and Leaders Discussion board held nineteenth December, 2023 in response to the intervention and directives of the President, Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu to the present political disaster in Rivers State.

We recall that in our communiqué of seventeenth and 18th December, 2023, we urged Mr. President to intervene within the political disaster in Rivers State, for which we commend his immediate intervention between Chief Barr. Nyesom Wike, the minister of the Federal Capital Territory and Sir Siminialayi Fubara, the manager governor of Rivers State however we’re at a loss as as to whether his intervention has solved the issue or escalated it.

A evaluate of Mr. President’s directives for the decision of the political deadlock in Rivers State confirmed that: That the directives contravene the structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which Mr. President swore to uphold always.

The directives unilaterally suspended the structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by advantage of an try to reverse a courtroom order recognizing Edison Ehie because the speaker and directing that the rest of members of the Home of Meeting constituted the quorum for legislative enterprise.

The directives to the events had been one sided in favour of Wike and on the detriment of the governor, and the nice individuals of Rivers State.

Within the eyes of the legislation and due course of, as evidenced by the Rivers State Excessive Courtroom determination, that the Rt. Hon. Martins Amaewhule and his workforce has ceased to exist within the state Home of Meeting having defected to a different political celebration, and subsequently can’t be reinstated and remunerated by means of the again door.

It’s the responsibility of the Govt arm of presidency to supply lodging for legislators in a constitutional democracy as exemplified by the FCT Minister with respect to the Nationwide Meeting.

It’s subsequently, hypocritical to counsel, that the Rivers State Home of Meeting underneath Martins Amaewhule might sit wherever of their alternative, whereas in Abuja, it’s the FCT minister, on behalf of the manager arm that gives lodging for federal legislators,” 

President Tinubu had on Monday intervened within the umpass between Wike and Gov Fubara. A part of the resolutions reached embrace;

1. ALL issues instituted within the courts by the Governor of Rivers State, Sir Fubara, and his workforce, in respect of the political disaster in Rivers State, shall be withdrawn IMMEDIATELY

2. ALL impeachment proceedings initiated towards the Governor of Rivers State by the Rivers State Home of Meeting ought to be dropped instantly

3. The management of the Rivers State Home of Meeting as led by the Rt. Hon. Martin Amaewhule shall be acknowledged alongside the 27 members who resigned from the PDP

4. The remunerations and advantages of ALL members of the Rivers State Home of Meeting and their workers should be reinstated instantly and the Governor of Rivers State shall henceforth not intrude with the complete funding of the Rivers State Home of

Meeting

5. The Rivers State Home of Meeting shall select the place they wish to sit and conduct their legislative enterprise with out interference and/or hindrance from the Govt arm of presidency

6. The Governor of Rivers State, Sir Fubara, shall re-present the state funds to a correctly constituted Rivers State Home of Meeting

7. The names of ALL commissioners within the Rivers State Govt Council who resigned their appointments due to the political disaster within the state ought to be resubmitted to the Home of Meeting for approval

8. There ought to NOT be a caretaker committee for the native governments in Rivers State. The dissolution of the Native Authorities administration is null and void and shall not be acknowledged.