On Wednesday, former chairmen of the local government in Rivers State charged that Governor Siminalayi Fubara was behind the hunger protestors’ Tuesday attack on his predecessor Nyesom Wike’s home in Port Harcourt.
The former LG chairmen vowed to organize their men to launch an equal attack on Fubara’s properties, albeit cautioning that Fubara was not the only one who might use violence.
Tuesday, during the countrywide hunger strike, protesters marched to Wike’s restaurant on Ada George Road in Port Harcourt and besieged it, singing war songs and calling the former governor offensive names.
The police had to be there and vigilant in order to repel the demonstrators who tried to break into the residence.
Speaking on behalf of the Rivers State branch of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria on Wednesday, the chairmen, who were chosen while Wike was the state’s governor, charged that Siminalayi Fubara, the current governor, was funding the thugs who broke into Wike’s home.
Dr. Chidi Lloyd, a former chairman of the Emuoha Local Government Area, stated: “We are aware that he (Fubara) led the demonstrators to go the minister’s residence. We’ll also gather our troops and head to Forces Avenue, where he’s got a 32-acre construction site under construction.
“It’s time to stop. Here, Fubara is incapable of intimidating anyone. He is aware of it. Furthermore, we are aware of his and his allies’
“They have only succeeded in stealing enormous sums of money from Rivers. So he needs to use extreme caution. It’s here that he seeks to create ethnic hatred. Fubara won’t even be around to rule the state if what transpired at Ada George yesterday turns out to be repeated.
“We refuse to let his lack of leadership experience undo everything we have accomplished in this state. In order to find out what he did with the N238 billion he received between May and June, the demonstrators should congregate at the government house.
However, the former LG chairmen sounded like broken records, according to Joseph Johnson, the state commissioner for information and communications, who responded quickly.
“They completed their tenure and followed our own law, in my opinion. Therefore, what they are doing is interfering with matters that don’t affect them. They resemble regular people.
“If there was anything I observed yesterday (Tuesday) along the Ada George Road, it was protestors passing by the FCT Minister’s home and a large police presence. I therefore have no idea what they are discussing.
People are being drowned while trying to find a straw to grasp. However, if you are really asking me, what I know is that they have been having meetings. That’s simply the open one that they had today.
Former Ohio-Akpor Local Government Chairmen have been sponsoring these gatherings, where they have been instructed to take all necessary steps to transform the protest into a state of emergency.
“However, those are all the schemes of the evil. According to the Bible, he foiled the enemy’s schemes to prevent them from carrying out their plan.
“What they’re doing resembles a dying horse’s final kick.” The court has declared them to be gone, and they already are.
