HON. CHIEF ROBINSON NNAME EWOR AG. STATE PDP CHAIRMAN
BY WARISO WARISO.
The People’s Democratic Party ( PDP) in Rivers State, said it will challenge all the political appointments made by the Sole Administrator, Rear Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas Rtd in supreme court.
Ag Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party PDP, Rivers State Chapter, Chief Barr Nname Robinson Ewor stated this while speaking to newsman in his office in port Harcourt.
Nname opined that already at the Governorship level, the PDP Governor’s forum has challenged the declaration of state of emergency in Rivers state and the suspension of an elected Governor Siminalayi Fubara at the supreme court.
According to Hon. Nname Robinson Ewor, all the appointments made by the Rivers sole Administrator, including the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission ( RSIEC) Local Government Administrators are all illegal and would be challenged in court, pointing out that they as a political party have decided that all the actions of the Rivers Sole Administrator will be challenged in court, even though, according to him that the judiciary is compromised.
He noted that Rivers State is a peaceful State, with a peaceful loving Governor, pointing out that the crisis in Rivers State is between two political gladiators, former State Governor Nyesom Wike and Siminalayi Fubara.
He ask, ” what is the disagreement, it is a matter of control of resources, that the Fct minister said he made Governor Sim, therefore will control the Governor, State Assembly and structure to have access to the treasurer of the state”, he said, adding that this is not enough for a declaration of state of emergency.
The Ag P. D. P State Chairman averred that section 305 of the 1999 constitution as amended outlined conditions for a declaration of a state of emergency, which he said, includes that a country or state must be at war. There must be tendencies for a total breakdown of law and order. There must be a state of of emergency that will make the place ungovernable, even as he opined that non of these conditions is in Rivers state to warrant declaration of a state of emergency in the state.
He said, ” the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State is not inorder, that is why as a party, we rejected the declaration, but because, Nigeria is a country that do not have respect for the rule of law” , adding that no where in the constitution that gave the president power to suspend an elected Governor, a democratically elected State Assembly, he summed up.
He regretted that what is going on now in Rivers State is looting, noting that no one has the authority to spend public funds without appropriation, even as he questioned who appropriated money for the Sole to spend, adding that by all standards and measures, the Sole is in Rivers State not to maintain peace, but to cause further crisis in the state.
While condemning the state of emergency in Rivers state and the appointment of the Sole Administrator, Nname advised Rivers people to keep putting pressures on president Bola Ahmed Tinubu to return the democratically elected Governor and State House of Assembly.
