Anger, condemnation, disappointment have continued to trail the eight-point resolution signed between Rivers state Governor Siminialayi Fubara and the Minister of the federal Capital Territory, Chief Nyesom Wike at the end of the meeting held on Monday night at Aso Rock villa in Abuja, which was called at the instance of President Bola Tinubu to reconcile the duo who have been at loggerheads.
According to the eight-point resolution, the President directed that: “All matters instituted in the courts by the Governor of Rivers State, Sir Fubara, and his team, in respect of the political crisis in Rivers State, shall be withdrawn immediately.
”All impeachment proceedings initiated against the Governor of Rivers State by the Rivers State House of Assembly should be dropped immediately
“The leadership of the Rivers State House of Assembly as led by the Rt. Hon. Martin Amaewhule shall be recognised alongside the 27 members who resigned from the PDP.
“The remunerations and benefits of all members of the Rivers State House of Assembly and their staff must be reinstated immediately and the Governor of Rivers State shall henceforth not interfere with the full funding of the Rivers State House of Assembly.
“The Rivers State House of Assembly shall choose where they want to sit and conduct their legislative business without interference and/or hindrance from the executive arm of government.
“The Governor of Rivers State, Sir Fubara, shall re-present the state budget to a properly constituted Rivers State House of Assembly.
“The names of all commissioners in the Rivers State Executive Council who resigned their appointments because of the political crisis in the State should be resubmitted to the House of Assembly for approval.
“There should not be a caretaker committee for the local governments in Rivers State. The dissolution of the Local Government administration is null and void and shall not be recognised.”
Some Nigerians on social media, however, decried the resolution, saying it is one sided in favour of the minister.
Labaran Natiti said : ”The president has no mandate to issue such directives. Let them fight to the finish, we are expecting constitutional and legal outcomes, not compromises. Crimes have been committed, is a shame and regressive step to the expansion of democratic resolution of crisis. Rivers State is still under capture”.
Tony: ”This is absolutely 💯 ridiculous and erosion of our party mandate in the assembly including erosion of the status of the governor by accepting back appointees who resign from office. Documents jointly signed by Chairman of WIKE APC and PDP RIVERS respectively. Like a handover to APC”.
Stephen: ”The governor should rather resign or fight to the finish. These so-called ‘Directives for the Resolution’… are of imperfect obligation”.
A.I.O Goldenrock: ‘‘Fubara loses out completely in President Tinubu’s 8-point resolution”.
We say no to dictator: ”TINUBU IS THE PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA AND NOT PRESIDENT OF RIVERS STATE AND AS SUCH CANNOT DECIDE FOR RIVERS STATE. WHEN OBASANJO WAS THE PRESIDENT AND TINUBU WAS THE GOVERNOR OF LAGOS STATE, HOW MANY TIMES DID HE OBEY OBASANJO? WHATEVER CONDITIONS HE MIGHT HAVE GIVING TO OUR AMIABLE GOVERNOR SIM FUBARA THAT IS NOT SUITABLE FAVOURABLE TO THE PEOPLE OF RIVERS STATE, JUST TO FAVOUR IS HIS PARTY BECAUSE SOME REFUGEE MEMBERS DEFECTED TO HIS PARTY, WILL NOT STAND AND CANNOT BE ACCEPTED, SIM FUBARA HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO REJECT IT, THE SAME IMMUNITY COVERS THE BOTH OF THEM. FOR RIVERS PEOPLE AND GOVERNOR SIM FUBARA TO ACCEPT THAT FABRICATED TRASH IS A JOKE, A GOVERNOR WILL NOT AND CAN NEVER BE SUBJECTED TO AN ORDINARY MINISTER BECAUSE OF PARTY SYMPATHY,JUST TO TAKE RIVERS STATE BY ALL MEANS,IT WILL NOT WORK. ALL THE COMMISSIONERS REMAIN RESIGNED, ALL 27 ASSEMBLY MEMBERS SEATS REMAIN VACANT, EDISON EHIE REMAIN THE SPEAKER RIVERS STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY. ALL PRESENT GOVERNORS AND FORMER GOVERNORS WERE NOT SUBJECTED TO ALL THESE NONSENSE,THEY ALL HAVE THEIR RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES , SO SIM FUBARA MUST ENJOY HIS OWN. SINCE ILLEGAL IMPEACHING DID NOT WORK OUT, THIS THEIR EVIL PLANS WILL NOT ALSO WORK OUT, THERE CAN NEVER BE GODFATHER OF RIVERS STATE. GOVERNOR SIM FUBARA SHOULD ACCEPT THE REFUGEE FORMER SPEAKER AND HIS GANGS AND THEY SHOULD CHOOSE WHERE THEY WILL BE SITTING SO THAT THEY CAN AT ANY TIME COME UP WITH THEIR EVIL PLANS AND FOR SIM TO COME AND RE-PRESNTED THE 2024 APPROPRIATION BILL TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE LEFT PDP TO CANCER IS THE HIGHEST JOKE OF THE SEASON, THAT WILL NOT HAPPEN AND CANNOT HAPPEN HERE IN OUR STATE. I WAS THINKING THEY WILL ALSO WRITE THAT WIKE SHOULD TAKE OVER THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE AS THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE, UNFORTUNATELY HE WAS NOT MENTIONED. PRESIDENT TINUBU USE HIS HAND TO PICK AKPABIO TO BECOME THE SENATE PRESIDENT AND THE SPEAKER HOUSE OF REP, NO ONE DIRECTED HIM, GOVERNOR SIM FUBARA CHOICE MUST ALSO BE RESPECTED. THIS DELIVERANCE IS FOR RIVERS PEOPLE AND FOR THE GOOD INTEREST OF THE MASSES , SO THE EVIL PLANS WILL NOT STAND. WE ARE DELIVERED, WE ARE LIBERATED, OUR LIBERTY IS ESTABLISHED AND WE ARE SET FREE FROM GREED, TYRANNY, HIGH-HANDEDNESS. ONE SIDED AGREEMENT”.
Cotterell: ”Sim shall still remain the slave boy to his supposed master & boys of his master as long as he remains the governor. Secondly, his impeachment might eventually come on a later date deceitfully. Thirdly, he should forget about been a two term governor. Fourthly, he should forget about the solidarity and support of the greatest number of Rivers people. That, if he does stay true to course, and does emancipate and empower them shall avail him the needed all round support to enable him not only, stay as governor until 2027. But, can as well avail him a second term mandate as governor of Rivers State.. I wish to be very postulatively categorical about this grave yard peace that we are about to experience in Rivers State soonest if the viral resolution….making the round is true. Take it or leave it, Simi Fubara can never be forgiven for the trouble and loss he’s brought on the gods. Consequently, any miss step in the name of peace on his part, an equivalent and greater pound of flesh shall be violently “asked” of and or “taken” away from him”.
Akari: ”Isn’t this a one-sided resolution at gun point? This must be further putting Governor Sim Fubara in a crib,to be further remote controlled! It’s politics and it’s associated with interest; and most times personal interest for that matter. Consequently, it’s obvious that it’s in the personal and best interest of President Tinubu (& by extension the APC) that, the defected 25 members of the SHOA of the PDP remain in the APC but gets all their due from the PDP led government of Rivers State. It’s absurd and ironically anti-people and shall breed underdevelopment; conversely, that’s our politico-economic reality today. As it’s so saddening & pathetic that, politics in Nigeria, has got more to do with the empirical as against the normative; which is “what is” as against “what ought to be”. Our present reality in the politics and governance in Rivers State is truly frightening and anti-democratic to say the least. This was how historically, democratic tenents in the 2nd republic was gradually & deliberately eroded, and the development not arrested, until it snowballed into the extermination of that republic. If Fubara does not stand his ground and govern Rivers State and Rivers people just like President Tinubu did as the then governor of Lagos State during OBJ. It’s my fervent belief, that President Tinubu inconjunction with his godfather shall remove him from office through the back door (the courts & impeachment)”.
Maurice Babale: ”If I read through and well understood these resolutions, one important issue that is not reversed is the decamping of all the members of the Rivers State house of Assembly. They were not asked to go back to PDP”.
Khalifa: ”I hope the country is not in one chance?the making of dictators on my mind if indeed we are in a democracy one shouldn’t be given orders to state governors as if they are under your control, this is unacceptable, this democracy is becoming a one show. Is this democracy?how can the federal government dictate to the governor?the governor should decide his commissioners and how to run his state, sad day for the so-called democracy … Instead of calling your ogogoro minister to order you your busy petting him,Sim should be allowed to work for the good people of rivers state. This agreement is in favour of the APC and the ogogoro master,indeed they will have an edge over governor Sim,I think Gov.Sim should begin to uproot them gradually if not they will still come for him. It is an indication that he was cornered, this is not democracy, I expected him to be bold enough to resist inimidation, he has immunity and the Rivers people behind him,this is what matters. Let’s see how things play out in the coming days”.
Bafta Saleh: Too late they will impeach him in the next 6 months or 1 year…. Satanic self, Wike has proved to have Zero integrity”.
~wyngatee: ”If only impeachment. They will imprison him, if only to prove a point. He is dealing with a very devious set of people. NIGERIA IN TROUBLE! The bigger picture”.
~Grabo: ”I agree with you, this resolution is trash. None of the fundamental issues was addressed. Sim hasn’t saved his head at all. His enemies by this resolution have been fully armed to go for his jugular. How can he not have any influence over the Assembly members that Tinubu has accepted as APC members”.
~Remy: ”I suspect he may not implement that booby trap bcuz if he does that means his political carrier is finished and they will later deal with him much later. No sane person will agree to such rubbish agreement. My mood changed when that news filtered in as if I have a stake in Rivers State affairs. To be honest that purported agreement was highly vexatious and downright godless. It shows clearly how they perceived Governor Sim as a kindergarten/inexperienced politician. Anyways let’s watch and see how it plays out but I will be totally disappointed if he goes ahead to implement that rubbish agreement”.
~Peacemaker: ”Fubara should not have signed that agreement. In any case, it is not binding on the parties. It can not be litigated upon. None of the parties can go to court on that agreement. It is an exercise in futility – a mere piece of paper. A governor’s first duty is to his state and his people, and this charge can not be tampered with by any social agreement like the one signed. The president can do nothing to any of the parties if they disobey the agreement. He can only sack the minister but can not sack the governor on that account. The president should have just advised and called those he has powers over to be cautious. The president is as elected as the governor is. The governor is no prefect; the president is no principal. Anyway, we wait and see. I want peace in Rivers State…. Not Graveyard Peace! This one-sided settlement will only give us Graveyard Peace!!! It is a booby trap. PBAT was no umpire. He took sides to save one side and give that side enough time to reorganise themselves and attack again….. See why I like Buhari. He will just be looking in respect of states independence. PBAT is becoming a meddlesome interloper in states’ affairs – from Ogun State to Ondo State to Rivers State. This is not a good start. His advisers need to advise him better”.
Norisia Pepple: ”The agreement presented so far is a mere tool to enhance their propaganda and to further present our governor as a weakling. Discountenance the agreement”.
~Aboki: Accepting this will make him worse off. It seems it is too late because he already signed. This is not good. This is slavery”.
~TCIC: ”That is NO DEAL. He should have contacted his party the PDP to accompany him to the meeting called by the President. He went alone with his deputy unprotected. However the PDP has the right to reject the agreement and should approach the courts. The current electoral Law under Nigeria construction allocates votes and office to the party with the candidate as holding power for the party”.
Dagogo: ”The deal is one sided. Favouring wike and his co travellers. My brother has lost out. He is the perfect subject”.
Nelson: Supreme Court is even by the corner. He should resign honourably or dare not default on the resolutions otherwise he will be eaten raw. It is either Supreme Court or impeachment or at most 4 years but in total submission. Sim and Rivers State is done. It is stupid of him”.
Igali: ”He is being strategic to secure his 4 years since there will be no impeachment move against him again. If he refused, they can plot him at the Supreme Court or use federal might to impeach him. But if he is a wise man, what he should do is to use the state resources to.develop the state and that way win the hearts of people irrespective of second tenure or not. As for Wike, his end has finally come, in the next cabinet reshuffle, he may be dropped or at most not continue after 4 years. Tinubu did not need Rivers state to win in 2023 or also does not need Rivers in 2027, but wanted a respected leader from Rivers/Bayelsa axis that he could count on to manage this volatile axis, he now knows that Wike is not that leader, but just a big bully. Did you see Tinubu fight Ambode when he was misbehaving? He just waited for.him and struck where and when it mattered most”.
Courage Nsirimovu: ”The resolution will embolden the FCT Minister Wike to continue to play god. it is unconstitutional. Rivers people should reject it. The President is not in charge of Rivers State”