Rivers: Wike, Lawakers Bent On Rubbishing Gov Fubara, APC Chieftain, Eze

By Suleiman Anyalewechi

Factional Leader of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Rivers State Chapter, Chief Chukwuemeka Eze, has cautioned returnee Governor, Similanayi Fubara, against falling into a political trap set up by his traducers.

Eze’s admonition is coming against the backdrop of the seemingly antagonistic tone and the undue haste with which the State Lawmakers are making demands on the Governor.

The Source reports that on their first sitting after returning from the six-month suspension order slammed on them, courtesy of President Bola Tinubu’s emergency rule declaration in the State, the Legislators, on Thursday, September 18, 2025, requested the Governor to transmit his list of Commissioner- nominees, as well as the State’s appropriation bill.

The Rt Hon Martins Amaewfule-led- pro-Nyesom Wike Lawmakers also signaled their intentions to “probe” the emergency rule tenure of Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas, a move  perceived by not a few, as smacking of a pre-emptive plot to silence any future prospect of interrogating the stewardship of the  outgone Sole Administrator.

However, reacting to the House resolution, Chief Eze, in a statement on Friday, expressed fears that the worst may not actually be over for the beleaguered Rivers State people.

According to him, the unnecessary resolution calling for Commissioner- nominees a few hours after resumption, is a clear sign that the Legislators are ever ready to continue with their aggressive and combative disposition.

The APC leader emphasized that the disposition of the Lawmakers represents a clear indication the they and their enablers are not committed to the agreements  which they claimed were  reached by the parties to the state’s crisis.

Eze further explained that the standard practice would have been for the Leadership of the House to pay a courtesy call on the Governor to chart the way forward rather than  making unnecessary demands.

He questioned the rationale, and even the motive, behind asking someone who is just returning to office, after a long period of  lay-off to present a state budget and Commissioner- nominees.

” It is surprising that the Rivers State House of Assembly is placing this demand on the Governor at a time when the people expected them to have a moment of quiet reflection, like the Governor, on the avalanche of sabotage that has wrecked the common patrimony of Rivers people by strangers installed to plunder the common wealth, and chart a new cause for a holistic recovery through genuine reconciliation for the progress of the State.

“How can these political puppets ask the Governor to present the state budget and Commissioner- nominees and aides on the very day the illegal State of emergency was lifted if they are in for peace?

“They are too quick to resonate through their careless statement, another regime of political crisis as they have been instructed by the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, who, in all honesty,  blatantly detests the development efforts of Governor Fubara.

“It is an unnecessary interference. Nomination of Commissioners is the sole prerogative of the Governor, and he appoints whom he chooses ,and when it is convenient for him”, the APC Chieftain noted.

He urged Governor Fubara to immediately sack all the Commissioners inherited from the Sole Administrator, and appoint fresh hands that will assist him reposition the State.

He warned the Governor against  allowing anybody, or groups to dictate to him those to appoint into his Government.

The APC stalwart also called for the reintegration of the Lawmakers that either resigned or worked with the Governor by the State House of Assembly ,for the purpose of a lasting peace.

“All the Commissioners and appointees of the Governor must also be reinstated if actually President Tinubu and Wike wants genuine peace to pervade the State. This should be a “no victor, no vanquished situation.

“The Governor must be assured that he is not set up for further embarrassment by the funny members of the State House of Assembly through any impeachment moves.

“If President Tinubu fails to assure him of his full powers ,and protection, I will advise the Governor to invoke his full powers as the Executive Governor of the State, particularly, now that the entire State and International Community are  behind him”, Eze stated.