Anita Ogona
The Ijaw Youths Council, the Ijaw National Congress and the Rivers State Elders and Leaders Council have expressed their disapproval of Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (ret.), the sole administrator of the state, for his decision to suspend appointees of Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
IREPORT247NEW reports that Ibok-Ete Ibas, who serves as the sole administrator of Rivers State, has taken immediate action to suspend all political appointees and office holders in theprocess fails, it fails forever, they now resorted to the commando style to bring a former military chief to become the governor, which is illegal.
“So, he (Ibas) has no powers to sack commissioners. He also does not have powers to appoint local government administrators.
“And the Supreme Court is very clear. There shouldn’t be administrators for the local government areas. You must be elected. Then the President gave a fiat and they paid the money meant for Rivers State to an illegal sole administrator.
“By that action alone he has challenged the Supreme Court and I expect the Supreme Court to charge him for contempt.
“We have Bola Tinubu, Nyesom Wike, Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and Femi Gbajabiamila, the four persons now ruling Nigeria with fiat. And they think they can go away with this. Government go, government come, one day they will be called upon to clear themselves.
“If Mr President has immunity, do the other people also have immunity? So, what he is doing is illegal, unconstitutional and therefore null and void.
“But I advise him (Ibas) as a senior citizen of this country not to dabble himself into something that he cannot come out from. He had a clean slate and retired.
“From information I gathered, they want to empower Wike for six months and allow him to go. By this time you want to conduct local government election.
“Even the local government election cannot work now because the notice is not up to 12 months; 360 days, that’s what the notice says. So, we will look at it and see how these things will play out. But all what they are doing is illegal.
“They are illegality, null and void and of no effect. They will account for everything, every penny.”
