By Suleiman Anyalewechi
The Rivers State Government has strongly dismissed claims that former President Olusegun Obasanjo ,and PANDEF delegation paid solidarity visits to Governor Siminalayi Fubara, amidst the Rivers State political imbroglio.
The social media has been awash with reports that the former President, alongside elders from the Pan Niger Delta Forum visited the embattled Rivers state Governor at the State’s seat of power, Port Harcourt.
A statement on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, from the Governor’s media Aide, Nelson Chukwudi, described such reports as fictitious, intended to cause chaos and anarchy within the system.
According to him, the reports are the handiwork of those who do not want peace and good governance in Rivers state.
“Our attention has been drawn to a malicious post circulating on social media claiming that a delegation of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, paid a solidarity visit to the Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara at the Government House on Sunday March,16, 2025 .
“There is also another planted by some people bent on causing chaos and anarchy in the State, alleging that former President Olusegun Obasanjo paid a visit to the Governor at the Government House in Port Harcourt.
“Ordinarily, we would not have responded to these spurious claims ,and obvious fake news on social media, but for the erroneous impression they may create on the minds of gullible and unsuspecting members of the public and, indeed, well-meaning Rivers people..
For that reason, let it be clarified that there was no such visit by any delegation of PANDEF to Governor Fubara on the said date, neither did Chief Obasanjo visit him as claimed by our detractors.
“So whatever the purveyors of the vexatious narratives are pushing on social media are only the imagination of enemies of the state who do not want peace ,good governance and even development that the present administration has been working hard to bequeath to the present and future generations .
“The Governor has made it abundantly clear that he would comply and implement, to the fullest, the judgment of the Supreme Court on the political crisis in the state”, the statement partly reads .
The Governor’s spokesman noted that he has already kick- started the processes leading to the implementation of the Court’s verdict, but regretted that the Lawmakers have so far frustrated the Governor’s efforts.
According to Chukwudi, ,the Governor is ready, any day, anytime, to do the needful to ensure the resolution of the issues, and smooth functioning of all arms of Government in the State.
The Source reports that the Rivers State’s political temperature has boiled over since the Supreme Court’s ruling of February 28, 2025, which, among other things, recognized the earlier defected 27 pro-Wike law makers as authentic members of the State’s Legislative Body.
Presently ,the battle of wits between the Legislators and Governor Fubara is at the impeachment level.
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