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Rivers Emergency Rule: Tinubu’s Has Become A ‘Presidential Dictator’, Must Be Stopped By NASS- Adegboruwa SAN

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James Orji
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Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa

Ebun Adegboruwa has described the suspension of  Governor Siminalaye Fubara of Rivers state and the declaration of Emergency Rule in the oil bearing state as a bad omen for the country. The senior advocate of Nigeria, SAN, made the admonition on Thursday on Channels Television as gloom hovers on the restive state following the suspension of the governor and the the state House of Assembly by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

The president had on Tuesday declared a State of Emergency on the state, following which he also removed the governor and the lawmakers, saying is action was last potion after the feuding parties in the political crisis failed to come to a truce.

Tinubu had since appointed Vice Admiral Ibokette Ibaz (rtd.) a former Chief of Naval Staff as the Administrator to oversee the state for a period of six months.

Recall that Governor Fubara and his estranged political godfather have face off for months over who controls the power levers in the state.

The president’s decision has however been trailed with mixed reactions, by some who criticised him for lacking powers to remove a sitting governor, and others who insist that the president needed act to forestall total breakdown of law and order.

For instance, Atiku Abubakar, the 2023 Presidential candidate of the PDP and Peter Obi of the Labour Party, have trenchantly knocked the president for the declaration of a state of Emergency.

The Nigerian Bar Association has also berated the president for sacking the democratically elected officials in the state, stating that he misused his powers under the 1999 Constitution which President Tinubu cited for suspending the governor and the lawmakers.

According to Adegboruwa, Tinubu has acted like a ‘presidential dictator’ in  his decision to sack the democratic institutions in the state, describing the action as illegal and unconstitutional, that must not be allowed to stand.

The senior lawyer spoke few hours before the National Assembly meet to debate on whether to uphold the president’s decision. The president’s decision is subject to the approval of the NASS.

The law requires two-third members of the Nigerian Senate and House of Representatives to support the president’s action before it can take effect.

Adegboruwa, has however appealed to the NASS to reject President’s decision to remove the governor and the state lawmakers, saying the situation in the state has not resulted to ‘total helplessness’ that required extra-ordinary measures such as the declaration of state of Emergency, adding that other dispute resolution methods have yet to be exhausted by the president.

According to him, the state cannot be an exception after the president failed to take similar measures in Lagos and Osun states which have experienced similar political turmoil lately.

He urged President Tinubu ‘to engage with the people of’ the state, saying nothing can ‘justify’ the sacking of Governor Fubara, adding that the president’s action paints a gloomy picture for the nation’s fledgling democracy.

Tinubu, he affirmed, is fact becoming a presidential dictator.

Meanwhile, a coalition of key opposition leaders such as former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Governor Nasir El Rufai met on Thursday in Abuja, the nation’s capital rejecting the State of Emergency imposed on Rivers state.

They called on the president to reverse the action with immediate effect, in other not to further heat up the system.

Emergency Rule: NASS Must Save Tinubu From Himself- Ex Presidential Aide

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James Orji
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National Assembly Complex - NASS

A former presidential aide, Laolu Akande has appealed to the National Assembly to reject the suspension of Governor Siminalaye Fubara of Rivers state by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, saying they have the responsibility to defend Nigeria’s democracy.

The former spokesman to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo made the remark on Thursday on Channels Television, as controversy continues to trail the president’s action.

The magazine reported that President Tinubu, on Tuesday, suspended Governor Fubara and members of the Rivers state House of Assembly after declaring a state of emergency in the oil rich state, citing the break down of law and order.

The emergency rule culminated due to the protracted power struggle between supporters of Governor Fubara and his estranged godfather, Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, and former governor of the state.

President Tinubu had since appointed former Chief of Naval Staff, Ibokette Ibas as the administrator to run the affairs  of the state for a period of six months, saying his action is subject to the approval of the National Assembly.

The NASS, on Wednesday, shifted the debate over the matter to Thursday amid tension across the country.

Speaking earlier today, Akande said President Tinubu has committed a grave mistake by suspending Governor Fubara and the state lawmakers, urging the NASS to reverse the ‘unconstitutional decision.

Laolu Akande
Akande: NASS Must Save Nigeria’s Democracy

According to him, the president has been advised wrongly and must be told so by the lawmakers, who are in the position to save the country from the anarchy that is bound to trail the president’s action.

He explained that Tinubu should have availed himself all available dispute resolution methods before taking the suspension option, adding that Tinubu should have called Wike and Fubara, the two antagonists in the Rivers political crisis to a ‘room’ and giver them the ultimatum to end the crisis.

Stressing that the president has overreached himself by suspending the democratically elected officials in the state, which he has no power to do, the former presidential adviser said the NASS must endevout to ‘save Tinubu from himself’, because he has derailed from the cause of democracy which he once championed.

The NASS “need to save Tinubu from himself. He taught us in his better days”- what democracy is, but  appears to have derailed. “You cannot suspend an elected governor’ Akande said, adding that “constitutionality is the pillar of our democracy.

“The president needs help for his own legacy. The NASS needs to help him do that. The constitution that we have, federal system will not allow you to do so.”

Meanwhile, the Minsiter of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi, has defended the president’s action, stating that Tinubu acted at the right time.

Fagbemi said yesterday, while speaking to journalists in Aso Rock, Nigeria’s Presidency that the president needed to declare a state of emergency to forestall a further break down of law and order.

The nation’s chief law officer also disclosed that that the federal government will released the seized funds belonging to the Rivers state government to the new Administrator, thus putting an end to the debate over whether the funds seized following last months Supreme Court order will still be withheld during the period of State of Emergency.

Unity Bank Appoints Ebenezer Kolawole Ag CEO

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Tosin Olatokunbo
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Ebenezer Kolawole - Unity Bank CEO

The Board of Unity Bank Plc has announced the appointment of  Ebenezer Kolawole (FCA) as the Acting Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer following the retirement of Mrs. Oluwatomi Somefun who has completed her tenure as MD/CEO.

The appointment was announced at the Bank’s 18th Annual General Meeting, AGM, held in Lagos on Wednesday, after securing necessary approval from its primary regulator, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.

Kolawole is a seasoned and consummate Banker with over three decades of industry experience. He began his financial services career at Caribbean Finance Limited (an affiliate of CFL in Cayman Island) in Kaduna in 1992. He later joined Ecobank where he worked in various departments of the Bank, both Operations and Finance suites and rose to the position of Deputy Financial Controller. He moved to Standard Trust Bank (STB) and worked at various strategic areas including Operations, Regulatory Risk Management and Finance suites and played a pivotal role in the STB/UBA merger. Post-merger, he served as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the United Bank for Africa. He moved to Mainstreet Bank as the Bank’s Group Chief Finance Officer (GCFO) and actively drove the turnaround and transformation initiatives of the Bank. He had a brief stint at Globacom, a foremost and Nigeria’s leading Indigenous Telecommunication giant, where he served in various capacities for corporate business development.

He  joined Unity Bank Plc as Chief Financial Officer, CFO in 2015. He was later, in February 2018, appointed the Executive Director to oversee Finance, Operations and Information Technology, where he played a key role in the Bank’s strategic transformation and cost optimization initiatives which enhanced the Bank’s performance and market feasibility.

In line with the Bank’s succession and business continuity plans, Kolawole is saddled with the primary responsibility of finalizing the Bank’s ongoing corporate programmes and other strategic business initiatives of the institution.

He  holds a First-Class (Hons) Degree in Accounting from Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife. He has participated in several management/executive education programmes at Columbia Business School, New York, USA and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.

Kolawole is a member of several professional bodies including a Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA); a Fellow of the Institute of Credit Administration, (FICA), an Honorary Member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (HCIB), Associate Member of The Nigeria Institute of Management (AMNIM); Member of the Institute of Directors etc.

Nigeria’s Prisons, Terrible Eyesore – Visitation Panel

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Ayodele Oni
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Kuje Prison

By Ayodele Oni

A Federal Government Visitation Panel on Nigeria’s Prisons across the country has said that there are several inmates in detention serving longer periods than prison terms for offences they are being held.

The Visitation Panel came into conclusion that the conditions of the prisons and their inmates are terrible and unbearable.

The Panel headed by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, (SAN), Mr Olawale Fapohunda, revealed that most inmates are languishing in prisons due to lack of legal representation and the inability of the Legal Aid Council to cope with the huge number of cases.

Submitting the report of the panel to the Attorney-General of the Federation, and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, Fapohunda said that while auditing the prisons, they had interface with categories of inmates and found their conditions unpalatable.

Besides lack of legal representation, Fapohunda revealed that most of the inmates are suffering ailments that the prison authorities could not bear the cost of medication.

He, therefore, pleaded with the AGF and the Federal Government to  rescue the Nigerian prisons and their inmates with a view to alleviating their poor conditions.

Fapohunda, a former Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Ekiti State, asked the AGF to convene an emergency meeting of Body of Attorneys-General to deliberate on the issue of the deplorable conditions of prison inmates and come out with concrete remedy that will make life bearable for the inmates.

“It would have been odd in the extreme if the working group had simply focused on the status of Section 35 inmates and ignored the plight of other inmates deserving urgent attention.

“This category of inmates includes those without legal representation. Indeed, several inmates continue to be kept in detention for periods longer than the maximum period of imprisonment prescribed for the offence because they do not have legal representation.

“The working group found that an alarming high number of inmates in the custodial centres under review were without legal representation.

“The AGF is invited to note that although the Legal Aid Council of Nigeria is mandated to provide free legal services to inmates without legal representation, it is presently under resourced and thus barely able to make a significant difference.”

Fagbemi disclosed that the working group was constituted as part of efforts to ensure access to justice and ensure that persons are not unduly detained in custodial centres.

According to the Minister, the move is in line with the Renewed Hope agenda of the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and in line with the obligations under various national and international instruments.

“This mandate of the working group is crucial to achieving the standards we have set for ourselves in our effort to reform our criminal justice system.

“The vision of Mr. President is for a criminal justice system that maintains law and order, deters crime, punish offenders, while at the same time strives to rehabilitate those offenders in order to facilitate their recovery and reintegration to society.”

State Of Emergency: It Is Up To The National Assembly To Ratify, Or Reject It – AGF Fagbemi

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Suleiman Anyalewechi
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Lateef Fagbemi - AGF
Prince Lateef Fagbemi, AGF

By Suleiman Anyalewechi

Like his boss, President Bola Tinubu, the Attorney General of the Federation, and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, domiciled the blame for the political impasse, and subsequent declaration of emergency rule in Rivers state on the door steps of Governor Siminalayi Fubara.

This is even as he shockingly distanced Nyesom Wike, the FCT Minister from events  leading up to the crisis in the State.

The Source reports that Present Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday, March 18, suspended Governor Fubara, his Deputy, and Members of the Rivers State House of Assembly for six months, after declaring a State of emergency.

A former Chief of  Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ette Ibas, has since been sworn-in as the State’s Sole Administrator.

However, the action of the President has so far elicited a deafening condemnation from across the country, with not a few insisting on the reversal of the situation.

Similarly, many, including the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, have questioned the  constitutionality of the emergency declaration, insisting that it smacks of a deliberate and desperate move to muscle opposition voices in the country.

But at a media briefing on Wednesday at the State House,  Abuja, Fagbemi, expectedly, justified the exercise, in which he must have played a significant role in prodding as the Nigeria’s Chief Law Officer.

It will be recalled that the President cited the failure of governance ,and threat to the peace and stability of both Rivers and the country among other reasons for his action.

Fegbemi explained that the declaration of the emergency rule became a last resort to save  Rivers Nigeria and its critical infrastructural facilities within the State.

The  AGF pointedly accused Governor Fubara of not only failing to discourage attacks on vital oil facilities, but subtly goaded the action.

According to him, the Governor played key roles in the twin explosions that rocked some oil pipelines in the State by enabling militants.

The AGF maintained that Fubara, as the Governor, failed woefully to play his role as the Chief Security Officer of the State, and by so doing, wittingly and/or by accident, encouraged needles attacks on oil pipelines and innocent residents.

“There was what I would call telegraphing of the militants by the Governor. He initially suggested that he would let them know when it was time to act.

“Even if we assume that was just a rhetoric, did he come out to disown them when they took action?

“The answer is no. Barely a week after, we saw the vandalization of oil pipelines”, Fagbemi stated.

The Minister of Justice insisted that the President was justified to have acted at the time he did because there were  clear and enough  signs  that there was no effective governance in the State.

According to him, both the Governor and the State Lawmakers failed to create an enabling environment for governance, peace and stability, a development that prompted the president to act.

While noting that the President acted within the confines of the law and the country’s constitution, he, however, stated that it is up to the National Assembly to either reject or approve of the emergency rule.

“The President acted based on the Supreme Court’s judgment ,and also to protect critical infrastructure in Rivers State.

“People were living in fear, and some were losing their lives. This was an extraordinary situation that required decisive action.

“The claim that the action was hasty is not correct .The crisis was escalating on daily basis, and at that point, the President had no other option than to act.

“But it is up to the National Assembly to either overturn the emergency declaration or approve it.

“The ball is now in the court of the National Assembly. If they do not ratify it ,the situation will not stand” Fagbemi noted.

Absolving Wike, from any blame, the AGF, questioned if it was the FCT Minister that ordered the demolition of the State House of Assembly Complex? “For me, I don’t see the hand of Minister of the FCT in what happened”, he submitted.

“Fubara Least Expected What Hit Him” – Information Commissioner

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Adesina Soyooye
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Warisenibo Johnson - Rivers State Commissioner for Information

By Adesina Soyooye

Rivers State Commissioner for Information,  Warisenibo Johnson, has revealed that Governor Siminalayi Fubara was taken aback by his removal from office. He said the now suspended Governor did not expect the extreme action taken against him and his Government by President Bola Tinubu. At the time the news of his suspension from office was announced, Fubare was busy implementing tye judgment of the Supreme Court.

The President had, in the afternoon of March 18, declared a State of Emergency in Rivers State and suspended  Fubara, his Deputy,  Dr. Ngozi Ordu and all the Members of the House of Assembly from office, for an initial period of six months. In Fubara’s place, Tinubu appointed a former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ette Ibas, Sole Administrator of the State.

In an interview with Premium Times, the  Commissioner who said he was with the Governor at the Government House, Port Harcourt, till 2.00am Wednesday, said Fubara had become helpless, and cannot quite do anything or take any action; that he was, only, waiting for Ibas to arrive; and has taken what fate threw at him. He also disclosed that at the time he left Government House, scores of Security Agents have taken over the complex, and all activities therein.

On how they feel about the new situation, he said: “Well, it’s an action we never expected because the indices that should have taken us into a state of emergency were not there. In the ding-dong, we were fulfilling the Supreme Court judgement when this hammer came, and as a Government, we have no choice but to allow the will of God to prevail in this matter.”

President Tinubu has since Wednesday afternoon sworn-in Ibas as Sole Administrator and, according to reports, Fubara and his family have vacated Government House Port Harcourt.

Rivers State, since the return of democracy in 1999, has become the first State in the South-south region to be slammed with a State of Emergency.

The action, however, has been met with unprecedented condemnation.

Rivers: Rotimi Amaechi Says Tinubu Has Truncated Democracy

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Suleiman Anyalewechi
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Rotimi Amaechi and Bola Tinubu

By Suleiman Anyalewechi

National Assembly should reject the President’s illegality

The immediate past Minister of  Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has condemned in the strongest terms the state of emergency declared in Rivers state and the subsequent suspension of democratically elected Government officials by President Bola Tinubu.

The Source reports that the President, in a nationwide broadcast on Tuesday ,March 18, 2025, imposed a State of Emergency on Rivers State, citing the absence of governance and threat to peace and stability of both the State and the country at large as major reasons.

The President appointed a Sole Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ette Ibas, to oversee the affairs of the State for the next six minths.

However, the unexpected action has been drawing flaks from not a few Nigerians, including professional bodies. They are questioning the constitutionality and motives of the President’s action.

Amaechi, a chieftain of the All Progressive Congress, APC , and former Governor of Rivers  State, in a statement on Wednesday, expressed serious concern about the implications of the President’s suspension of democratically elected Government officials.

He noted that the unconstitutional suspension of elected officials is a clear and desperate intention of some persons to grab power in the State.

” Unequivocally, I condemn the rather brazen and unilaterally reckless suspension and removal of the Governor of Rivers State, the Deputy Governor of Rivers State, and State House of Assembly members by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

“With this singular move, Mr President has technically suspended and truncated democracy in Rivers state. This clearly violates our Constitution, the same Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that Mr President swore to uphold.

“Section 188 of the Nigerian Constitution clearly stipulates how State Governors can be removed from office. And it does not include a fiat declaration, decree, or promulgation by Mr President.

“Therefore, he cannot appropriate such powers to himself. A democratically elected State Governor cannot be removed from office by a proclamation of Mr President .

“The suspension of two key democratically elected arms of Government in Rivers State by Mr President evidently violates our constitution even within the scope and interpretation of Section 305 that the President cited in his broadcast.

“The unfolding events in Rivers State in the past months point to a clearly orchestrated plot by some persons to unconstitutionally perpetrate and impose themselves on the people.

“At this inauspicious moment in our nation’s trajectory, all people of goodwill and conscience should rise to oppose this audacious violation of our Constitution ,and rape of democracy.

“Mr president must be made to know and understand in unmistakable terms that this illegality cannot stand.

“Politicians across the divide should speak out rise to halt our nation’s descent into totalitarianism State Governors and legislators should speak out now.

“I urge the National Assembly to reject this illegality.” Amaechi stated

Tinubu Swears-in Ibok-Ete Ibas As Sole Administrator Of Rivers State

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Akinwale Kasali
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President Tinubu Swears in Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas as the Rivers State Administrator

By Akinwale Kasali

President Bola Tinubu has sworn in Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (Rtd) as Sole Administrator of Rivers State.

This is coming hours after the suspension of Governor Siminalayi Fubara, and other elected public office- holders in the State.

Tinubu said that the decision to pick the former Chief of Naval Staff to lead peace initiative in the State was to ensure that Rivers gets a man that understands the ethnic dynamics across Rivers.

The Administrator was sworn in during a short ceremony held inside the Presidential villa on Wednesday to avoid any leadership vacuum in the State.

Ibas’ appointment was announced by Tinubu during a nationwide broadcast Tuesday when he declared a state of emergency in Rivers State and suspended the Governor, Deputy Governor, Ngozi Odu and the Rivers State House of Assembly members.

During the address, Tinubu hinged his decision on Section 305 of the 1999 Constitution, saying he couldn’t continue to watch the political situation in Rivers escalate without taking any action.

The suspension of Fubara and other democratically elected representatives has been expressly rejected and condemned by many eminent Nigerians, legal luminaries, groups including Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, Femi Falana, the Labour Party (LP), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Nigerian Bar Association, among others.

While the emergency rule has been praised by the pro-Nyesom Wike Assembly led by Martins Amaewhule, accusing Fubara of contravening the Supreme Court ruling on the political situation in the State, politicians the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), and others have kicked against the decision, describing it as an act of despot.

Ibas, who was the Chief of Naval Staff from 2015 to 2021, was born in Cross River where he had his early education.

The new Sole Administrator attended the Nigerian Defence Academy in 1979 from where he proceeded to have a successful career in the Navy, rising through the ranks to the very top.

He is a member of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) and the Nigerian Institute of Management.

President Muhammadu Buhari who appointed him as Chief of Naval Staff conferred him with the National Honour of Commander of the Federal Republic (CFR) in 2022.

Ondo Killings: Fmr. Dep. Gov Urges Self-defence, Says  Gov Incompetent

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Ayodele Oni
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Agboola Ajayi and Lucky Aiyedatiwa

By Ayodele Oni

Former Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Agboola Ajayi, has said the unending insecurity in the state underscores the ill-preparedness and incompetence of Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa.

Ajayi, who was candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), in 2024 Governorship Election, also accused Aiyedatiwa of displaying lethargic approach to insecurity in the State.

Reacting, in a statement on Wednesday to protest at the governor’s office in Akure over killing of five persons by suspected herdsmen, the former deputy governor advised Aiyedatiwa to

“take full grip of this crisis and seek help that will take Ondo State back from the grip of invading bandits forthwith.

“For the past few weeks,  Ondo State has been in the news for the very wrong reasons, the people are troubled about an emerging culture of kidnapping, banditry and killings, as at the last count, about a hundred people have been killed by criminals who invaded our State from elsewhere.

“Today, the people of Akure felt that they have had enough of this ugly development, they invaded the premises of the Government office  to express their indgnition and  frustration over this ridiculous development for which the APC government of Mr Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa has no answer.

“Let me underscore the fact that the security challenge confronting Ondo State is not an entirely new development, but Governments before the present had adeptly managed this odious crisis and disallowed it to fester to the level it is today.

“While I was deputy Governor of Ondo State between 2017-2021, working dutifully alongside my late boss, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, we developed a robust plan, and implemented actions that put banditry and criminality in check.

“We stopped outrightly open grazing of cattles by herdsmen and sanity ruled.

Unfortunately the gains of that era has been allowed to slip away and the people are now in pains!

“While I condemn the sloppiness and lethargy with which Governor Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa is conducting the affairs of our State, it completely underscores his ill-preparedness and incompetence to be in the saddle.

“I wish to call attention to my campaign manifestoe where I canvassed for new thinking in solving security challenges and urged absolute proactive measures to solving them, I equally laid emphassis on the lethargic approach of Mr Aiyedatiwa during the Governorship debate.

“The need to take full grip of this crisis cannot be  delayed a day longer, I therefore call on the Governor to seek help and take actions that will take Ondo State back from the grip of invading bandits forthwith.

“The Government must as a matter of fact revamp Amotekun immediately and ensure the re-creation of Armed Forest Guards that will police our forests and uproot all invading criminal elements so that peace can reign in our State.

“Due fact is accorded the fact that Mr Governor takes over a billion naira as security vote, it is time to make the administration of this fund bear results in the interest of the State, we the people do not deserve anything less.

“In conclusion, I encourage our people to begin to organise to defend themselves from undue assaults by bandits while we hope that Gov Aiyedatiwa will get his acts together soon.”

We Are In Period Of Total infrastructure Revolution In Imo  – Uzodimma

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The Source
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Senator Hope Uzodimma

Governor Hope Uzodimma has said that Imo State is now in a period of total infrastructure revolution, declaring that there will be no going back.

He spoke on Tuesday, March 18, when he undertook a tour of some ongoing critical State projects in Orlu Zone, to assess the level of progress recorded on them by the contractors.

Some of the key sites inspected include; the already completed Mgbidi-Omuma-Okporo road, the Orlu township road stretching from Banana junction (Amaifeke)-Umuna-Eziachi- Anara, the reconstructed Legislative Chamber for Orlu Local Government Council, and the Traditional Rulers Council Hall, both of which were destroyed at the wake of insurgence in the State.

Uzodimma equally inspected the ongoing Imo State Government House Annex at Eziachi, Orlu.

At the Imo State University Teaching Hospital Umuna, Orlu the Governor inspected the Kidney Transplant Centre, the completed Oxygen Plant as well as the various departments and wards of the hospital, during which he took the initiative to offset the medical bills of all patients in the Male Surgical Ward and that of others running into millions of Naira; a gesture that was met with jubilation from the patients.

At the Orlu-Mgbee-Akokwa-Uga road ravaged by erosion and which is currently under construction, the Governor praised the quality and techniques deployed by the construction company, describing the work ethics and technology deployed to handle the construction as topnotch.

He reiterated that what is going on currently in the State is nothing but an infrastructure revolution aimed at repositioning Imo for sustainable socioeconomic development.

Uzodimma regretted that Orlu zone had faced significant challenges due to insecurity, which led to the destruction of many public assets, noting that the current period marks a time of extensive construction in the area, particularly as security has become relatively stable.

“We have a pack of multiple constructions and road projects to recover the economy of the zone and also to recover life for our people in this area.”

The Governor further stressed his resolve to impact positively on the life and wellbeing of Imo  people.

His words: “Governance is all about evidence of what you have put in place to make life more meaningful for the people. With the available scarce resources of the people, we will do our best to earn and justify the confidence they have in us.”

Governor Uzodinma was accompanied on the tour of projects by the Chief of Staff, Barr. Nnamdi Anyaehie, the Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure Development, Barr. Ralph Nwosu,  the Chairman of Orlu Local Government Area, Pastor Chris Mbarie, the Chairman of Imo Road Maintenance Agency (IROMA),  Barr. Kingsley Ononuju, the Chairman of Imo State Elders Council/Co-chairman of Southern Nigeria Traditional Rulers Council, HRM, Exe Cletus Ilomuanya, the traditional ruler of Umuna Autonomous Community, HRH, Eze Douglas Okwara among others.

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