Ijaw youth leader warns Wike, others against Fubara’s impeachment
03 November 2023 |
5:13 am
National Director of Mobilisation of Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Ari Fekorigha, warned against moves by some political actors to impeach Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara.
National Director of Mobilisation of Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Ari Fekorigha, warned against moves by some political actors to impeach Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara.
Fekorigha, in a statement entitled ‘Ijaw Youths Are Behind Governor Sim Fubara’, disclosed that Ijaw youths were worried that some lawmakers wanted to plunge Rivers into chaos by forcefully removing Fubara as governor on trumped up charges.
According to him, Ijaw youths will not allow political actors that do not mean well for Rivers and its people to truncate the peace that has been existing in the state and which Governor Fubara has sustained for the past five months.
He called on the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and former governor of the state, Nyesom Wike, to desist from the plot to remove Fubara, as such action would trigger dire consequences for the state and the Niger Delta region.
Rivers, he asserted, is bigger than any individual and urged President Bola Tinubu to call Wike to order before crisis breaks out in the state because of the selfish interest of political gladiators.
The youth leader, who condemned the actions of some policemen that shot directly at Fubara, urged the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, to investigate the incident and bring to book all the police personnel involved in such a dastardly act.
His statement reads: “We woke up Monday morning to stories of a section of the Rivers State House of Assembly destroyed by explosion and plot by some lawmakers to impeach Governor Fubara over yet undisclosed reasons.”
Not only that, the governor, who had come to the House of Assembly for on-the-spot assessment of the extent of damage, was shot at by the police. This is despicable and unacceptable. We demand an immediate investigation by the IGP, and all those found culpable must be brought to book.”
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