Governor Siminalayi Fubara has received advice from certain young people in Rivers State not to recall the commissioners who left his administration. Additionally, they advised against the governor bringing the 2024 budget before the Assembly again.
If the governor disregards the warning, the youths, who staged a massive protest in Port Harcourt on Friday, threatened to take over the Government House.
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Recall that on Monday night, following a meeting with President Bola Tinubu and other stakeholders, Fubara and his predecessor, Nyesom Wike, reached an agreement to end the political crisis roiling the state. However, political analysts and observers feel that the agreement mediated by the President is biassed in favour of Minister Wike of the Federal Capital Territory, or FCT.
“We’re calling on the governor not to recall any Commissioner,” the Rivers youths said during their Friday protest in Port Harcourt, pleading with Fubara to scrap the deal. The young demonstrators chanted, “We will seize Government House in response to any move to recall any Commissioner.
“Nyesom Wike did not vote for Sim alone. We also voted for Sim. We’ll not allow anybody, anybody all to truncate the will of Rivers people.
“So we’re calling on the Governor, don’t be under any pressure from anybody. We want to call on the Governor, don’t return the budget to the Assembly.
“The Rivers State House of Assembly has only one Speaker recognised by the law which is Edison Ehie. And as such, the seats of the 27 lawmakers are vacant. One of the young protestors said, “We want to call on the Governor, we voted for you and you must listen to us, Tinubu is not from Rivers State.”
