Rivers: Resignations Hit Fubara’s Govt

More members of the Rivers State Executive Council, SEC, have resigned from the Governor Simi Fubara’s administration.

The magazine had reported on Thursday the resignation of the Prof. Zaccheaus Adangor, the state’s Attorney General and commissioner for Justice.

Prof. Adangor’s resignation, the magazine had reported would trigger a chain of other resignations, as the crisis of confidence between Governor Fubara and his predecessor, Nyesom Wike deepened.

Governor Fubara who is deep in a crisis of confidence with Wike, now Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, sources told the magazine, had given the commissioners in his cabinet loyal to the former governor the option of resigning or ‘take side’ with him in the battle of wits with his predecessor.

Recall also that 27 lawmakers in the state House of Assembly had earlier in the week defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, citing divisions in their former party.

The lawmakers who joined the APC are loyal to the FCT minister.

The Commissioner for Education, Prof. Prince Mmom, the latest to resign from Fubara’s government cited ‘personal reasons’ for dropping out of the cabinet in the letter he wrote to the governor.

Mmom said, “I hereby resign my appointment as the Commissioner for Education,  Rivers State, for personal reasons.

“I wish to express my sincere appreciation to you for the opportunity given to me to serve in your administration and wish you the best as you carry on with the government of our dear state.”

Other appointees who resigned from the administration include the Commissioner for Social Welfare, Mrs Inime Aguma, Dr. Kelly George, Commissioner for Works; Chukwuemeka Woke, Chief of Staff to the Governor; and Isaac Kamalu, the Commissioner for Finance.