By Gloria Ikibah
A member of the House of Representatives, representing Abua/Odual and Ahoada East Federal Constituency of Rivers State, Rep. Solomon Bob, has urged President Bola Tinubu to call the Rivers state Governor, Siminalayi Fubara to order, in the wake of his recent utterances regarding the politics of the state.
In a statement digned bybthe lawmaker on Friday in Abuja, Rep. Bob asked the president to remove any protective cover for Governor Fubara and allow the law take its course in the governance and management of resources of the state.
He said that Governor Fubara had committed several impeachable constitutional breaches and disrespected the President not to warrant further tolerance of his acts of lawlessness.
He said: “Governor Fubara has no respect for President Tinubu. I can tell you that. Forget about his public posturing; he only fears him. That’s all. If he could thumb his nose at the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory FCT, His Excellency, Dr Nyesom Wike, who brought him out of nothing, imagine what he would do to Tinubu.
“He begged for the December settlement brokered by the President. He benefitted more than anyone from it. In fact, he is the only beneficiary, but see how he has thrashed it. He sponsored people to challenge that settlement in court, including the so-called Rivers elders. The only term of the agreement he pretended to honour was the reappointment of commissioners who resigned, but he made them effectively redundant to the point where they had to resign again. He finally came out recently to denounce the settlement as unconstitutional”.
The lawmaker asserted that Governor Fubara’s outrageous lawlessness and assault on the constitution require that he faces the consequences of his actions, and that the President would be failing to live up to his oath of office to be seen to be condoning Fubara’s unprecedented lawless behaviour.
“President Tinubu must not appear like an enabler of impunity and egregious unlawful behaviour. Governor Fubara destroyed an entire branch of the government to the rubble. He is running a government without a budget and spending Rivers people’s money recklessly. He has illegally withheld funds due to local governments, and our people are running on empty purse.
“The House of Assembly, which has the constitutional responsibility to take necessary measures against the governor, must not be fettered. At the moment, that is the impression I get. I listened to the President’s media aide the other day, and I was disappointed. His statement is preposterous. If you do nothing in the face of gross lawlessness and constitutional abuse such as Fubara is displaying in Rivers State, that is not neutrality, that is siding with impunity, lawlessness, and tyranny”, Rep. Bob stated.