…Charges governor to be decisive
By: Felix Ikpotor
Following the ongoing political crisis rocking Rivers State, President-General of O-E’la Obor Eleme Organisatiom Worldwide, the apex socio-cultural organization of Eleme people, Chief Elder Isreal Gomba-Abbey has called on gladiators in the crisis especially the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike to allow the State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara to govern the state in peace.
Gomba-Abbey who spoke in an exclusive interview with Port Harcourt Spectator urged the minister to assume the role of a statesman and allow his predecessor to run a successful tenure.
He also criticised members of the Martin Amaewhule led Rivers State House of Assembly for forcefully holding onto their seats despite their defection from the party that sponsored them for the election to another party.
The Eleme leader said all actions taken so far by the lawmakers shall be set aside at the appropriate time.
“There is only one gladiator we know and that’s the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike. Let him for once say to himself that I have handed over, let me allow the state to be and we won’t have any of these things. Those legislators can go through bye-election and they would be returned and they do things legitimately.
“To stay in illegitimacy to say that what the governor has done is illegitimate, is like my people would say that one vulture is calling another vulture, bow-headed vulture but you are a bow-headed vulture. How can this people sit in illegality and declare the actions of a sitting governor who is legal in his actions illegal? As far as I’m concerned, let them make all the laws they want to make, they amount to illegalities. When the ships are down, people will go to court and set aside what they have done today,” he stated.
Elder Gomba-Abbey, also called on the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara to be decisive in his action as his seeming back and forth statements is causing confusion among the people.
“Another person by whose actions this things are subsisting is the governor himself because when he comes out in the open and declares that Wike is his mater and that this is between father and son, then Wike is overdoing what he’s doing, going beyond the governor to even to lampoon the state, that’s not acceptable to us. How does he wriggle himself out now? That’s the problem the governor has brought himself into.
“My advice to the governor is that he should be decisive. He can even go back to President Tinubu and tell him that, sir, I accepted all these things but the practicality of all these things is not there, if I allow this to be then it has hit the constitution, not just hitting the constitution, the people of Rivers State that I’m governing are not agreeing, it’s a recipe for civil rift, so please sir, I have respected you enough, these one I don’t want to implement it because it’s not just about me but the people of Rivers State,” he said.
The Eleme leader used the medium to advice people of the area to be united and work in agreement for the betterment of all citizens.
