There’s has been mixed reactions as another gale of suspension hits Governor Fubara camp . This is coming as two Rivers State independent Electoral Commission RSIEC, Commissioners resign from the commission
Though the state government is yet to react to their resignation which is circulating online, Governor Fubara supporters have taken to social media thank God for exposing wolves in their camp.
One Esther Ben wrote- Having known their mission as spies to Abuja ,the commission caged them to a point of no breathing least the option of resigning.
Work continues in the commission. She said
David Brown wrote -We know this things So what is the celebration for, somebody resigned from his employment for reasons known to him or her. There are millions of people who jobless who can easily filled in the vacant positions. Have you people stooped so low to the extent that you are running out of logical reasoning. Is resignation of appointment a new thing?.
However issue of major concern is that the House of Assembly had given an ultimatum to the chairman, Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC), Justice Adolphus Enebeli (retd), to appear before it.
The summons came even as the RSIEC chairman at a stakeholders’ meetiing on Wednesday, announced August 9 this year, for the conduct of fresh LGA elections.
But, the chairman did not honour the invitation, perhaps based on the response same day, from his legal team, that it was unconstitutional for him the RSIEC boss to be summoned within 24 hours.
Recall that the Rivers State House of Assembly opened another window for RSIEC chairman and commissioners to appear before the House for questioning. The invitation was given on Friday, at its 132nd Legislative Sitting, to explain the Commission’s actions and inactions in the October 5, 2024, Local Government Elections in the state, unbudgeted expenditures, and to further furnish the House where the commission expects to generate funds to conduct its proposed election.
The House reached the resolution after the Leader of the House, Major Jack, informed that the letters inviting the Chairman and Commissioners of RSIEC and the ones calling the attention of Governor Fubara to present the 2025 Appropriation Bill, and his infractions on the Constitution were duly delivered and publicised; but regretted that neither the governor nor the chairman and his commissioners honoured the invitations.
The Speaker said the House had taken Legislative notice of the refusal of Governor Fubara to present the 2025 Appropriation Bill, and the submission of the list of commissioner nominees to the House.
He added that the House will address it squarely at the appropriate time. The House voted in the affirmative, directing the Clerk to again invite the Chairman and Commissioners of the Commission to appear before it on Monday, March 10, 2025.
The Speaker emphasized that the House will have no other option than to invoke the spirit and letters of Section 129 (1) (d) of the Constitution, if the Chairman and his Commissioners fail to appear before the House on Monday. With the expiration of the deadline last Wednesday, one of the groups, Ogoni Young Patriots, through its leader, Aeba Godspower, has warned that “Nobody is more Rivers than other”, referring to groups and individuals threatening violence in the state. Godspower particularly stated that the Ijaw Youth Congress does not have a monopoly of violence, cautioning that the political crisis in the state should not be given a tribal coloration.
