Afrigather The Rivers State All Progressives Congress APC, Caretaker Committee Chairman Chief Tony Okocha will not be a contented man proper now as he was few weeks in the past dragged earlier than the general public area in a surreptitious write-up by suspected political jobbers. The article pitched him in opposition to his avowed opposition stance with making a U-Flip from his supposed opposition position within the authorities of Sir Siminialayi Fubara. Anxious by this unwarranted write-up, he rapidly known as an emergency press briefing on Tuesday 4th of June in 2024 the place he denied ever having made any assertion purportedly making a u-turn and congratulating the Rivers State Governor of Peoples Democratic Celebration-PDP as he stated “ I believe it’s proper to jab the idiotic script titled: “ Tony Okocha Makes a U-Flip, Congratulates Governor Fubara on a Profitable One Yr in Workplace and Apologies for Any Wrongdoing in a Press Assertion he Personally Signed”.
I’m daring to categorically and unequivocally say that what I simply learn is a doc that emanated from the pit of hell. Not solely merciless, it’s a jejune, nonsensical and it’s faux. I couldn’t have congratulated a authorities that’s within the Intensive care unit, not as Tony Okocha, worst case because the Chairman of All Progressives Congress, Rivers State and by that truth the chief of opposition events and voice of the unvoiced in Rivers State. I couldn’t have achieved so, not even on the level that I used to be going to breathe my final.
This doc must be thrown to the trash can and seen because the concoction of purveyors of wickedness whose intention is an try and malign my identify by displaying me off as one who speaks from each side of my mouth.
Whereas I used to be away, an entire lot of you will have known as to know my tackle the one year in workplace being celebrated nationwide together with that of the governor of Rivers State, so I’ve known as you to listen to my very own take.
I need to say to you clearly that the administration of Rivers State in the present day below Governor Siminalayi Fubara is a sham. Take it on a scale of 1 to 10, he scored minus zero. In different phrases, it’s apt to say that now we have relapsed to the times of primitive administrations in our political historical past. There may be nothing to indicate and I problem the Governor and his handlers to indicate only one proof of 1 mission he commenced and accomplished in one year. The second I see and listen to that, I’ll instantly recount and publicly congratulate the governor.
Does he examine along with his different brothers? I’ll identify notably those that are first timers as he. Take a typical case of Abia State, take a typical case of Akwa Ibom, take a typical case of Ebonyi State, take a typical case of Anambra, take a case of Enugu and let’s have a look at the far North, Niger State, juxtapose the achievements of this governors individually, they’re first timers like him. Take a fact-checks of what’s taking place in these states and you’ll understand that Rivers State is a case of mumbo-jumbo.
Let him present me one mission he can franchise to himself, not the appropriation of the tasks of the previous Governor. Sure, authorities is a continuum. Once more, he prides within the plans of continuity and consolidation, it’s additionally not sudden however the hazard of what he’s doing is that he doesn’t even accord one individual of credit score to. In writing, they name it plagiarism. You carry any person’s work or mental property and also you don’t put a quote or in-fact, with out crediting it to the supply, then the regulation says you’re responsible of plagiarism. So, in different phrases, Siminalayi Fubara is a plagiarist.
Once more, I need to problem you to match what he has achieved in one year. We’re in hassle in Rivers State. It’s an period of horror, stagnation and all different vices that anyone can consider.
In Rivers State below Siminalayi Fubara, safety is suspect. In Rivers State below Siminalayi Fubara, firms are leaving in droves, industries are closing down due to the worry of the unknown. The achievements of Governor Fubara recognized to me is the truth that he has traversed the 23 Native Councils of Rivers State in what he dubbed, Thanksgiving For Supreme Court docket Victory, that’s his personal achievement and it quantities to nothing aside from profligacy and throwing away of Rivers fund.
“So, how then would any person think about that I Chief Tony Chidugam Okocha would rise up on the grandstand, to now be within the bag if individuals who present vagaries start to like what I hate. That’s not my coaching and I condemn it and it’s condemnable.”
Whereas responding to inquiries by journalists, whether or not Martin Amaewhule and the 26 different members of the Rivers State Home of Meeting loyal to Minister of FCT Abuja, Nyesom Ezebunwo Wike are members of the APC, he replied thus: “Can we agree that what makes you a member of a bunch is that you’ve got your identify within the register of that group and if there’s an identification card, you even have your individual identification card to indicate that you simply’re a member and within the case of a political social gathering, you even have your membership card. Nevertheless, the matter is sub-judice.
On probe of Wike by his successor in workplace, Sir Siminialayi Fubara, the APC Rivers State Caretaker Committee stated “It is just a idiot, for need of higher phrase that would depart a public workplace and conclude prefer it was a non-public enterprise and due to that you simply don’t suppose that you’ll be inclined to probe. A day of reckoning will certainly come for anyone to think about, together with Siminalayi Fubara, to suppose that the point out of probe is a menace, no, it’s not a menace.
In order that he talked about the probe is nothing. I’ve been asking, what are the delays in organising the panel. I’ve challenged him and I’m difficult him once more that he who goes to fairness should go together with clear fingers. I listened to him, he stated he was going to probe previous administrations, not simply Wike regardless that it was an innuendo focused at Wike. Additionally, we’re saying that you simply can’t additionally accomplish that with out vacating that an order procured way back by former Governor Peter Odili that stopped the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, EFCC, from probing Odili, Rotimi Amaechi, Nyesom and now you, Siminalayi Fubara will profit from that judgement.
Additionally take off your immunity as Governor as a result of as Director of Finance and Administration, Authorities Home, Accountant-Common of the state, there isn’t a method you could be absolved of probe of a governor.
Don’t additionally overlook that the governor will not be a signatory of any account however offers only a mandate. So, as Accountant-Common, it’s clear that he was signatory to the account so he too will not be free.
So, to say that that has quieted Wike will not be right. Don’t additionally overlook that Wike is a Minister of the Federal Republic so whether or not individuals converse for him or not, he must be circumspect. On the fullness of time all people will converse up.”
It’s on file that the previous Governor of Rivers State Sir Dr. Peter Odili did get hold of a perpetual injunction from a Federal Excessive Court docket which stopped the probe of the account and expenditure of Rivers State funds by Financial and Monetary Crime Fee-EFCC and several other administrations that served in Rivers State at the moment are benefiting from that Court docket Judgment which barred EFCC from investigating and probing the monetary data of Rivers State Authorities.
–Emeka Amaefula
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