Pro-Wike Rivers Assembly bars Fubara from appointing chairpersons for local councils

Coming days after a controversial peace deal brokered by President Bola Tinubu, it appears the Rivers political crisis is far from over.

The Rivers House of Assembly on Friday stripped Governor Siminalayi Fubara of power to appoint a caretaker committee for local government areas in the state after rejecting the governor’s veto against the legislation.

The lawmakers overwhelmingly voted against Mr Fubara’s veto, before passing the bill into law, thus barring the governor from exercising the power enjoyed by his predecessor, Nyesom Wike.

With the bills now becoming laws, it means the governor will conduct an election at the expiration of the tenure of the current officials.

The three-year tenure of the current council officials in the state who were elected in 2021 will expire within the first quarter of this year.

The Speaker of the House, Martin Amaewhule, during Friday’s plenary, read four letters addressed to him by the governor wherein Mr Fubara declined assent to four new bills which had been sent to him for assent, Channels TV reported.

The lawmakers, who cited Section 100, subsection 5 of the Nigerian Constitution, said the assent of the governor was not required for the passage into law of the said bills.

The section states that, “Where the Governor withholds assent and the bill is again passed by the House of Assembly by two-thirds majority, the bill shall become law and the assent of the Governor shall not be required.”

The speaker accused the governor of not planning to conduct local government elections in the state.

The speaker said, “The key thing here is that this law removes the power of the Governor to appoint caretaker committee chairmen for the local governments, the governor is not happy that we’re removing his powers to appoint caretaker chairmen.”

The lawmakers also passed into law three other bills which the speaker said were vetoed by the governor. They are the Rivers State Traditional Rulers Amendment Law; the Rivers State Advertisement and Use of State Owned Property Prohibition repeal law; and the Rivers State Funds Management and Financial Autonomy Law.

This is the first time that the assembly has overrode Governor Fubara’s veto.

Coming days after a controversial peace deal brokered by President Bola Tinubu, it appears the Rivers political crisis is far from over.

The crisis had split the state assembly into two factions – with 27 members pledging their loyalty to Mr Wike while four stood with Mr Fubara.

The seats of the pro-Wike lawmakers were declared vacant after their defection to the APC but Governor Fubara and the other lawmakers would later allow them return to the assembly with the rights and privileges restored as part of the peace deal.

GeneraDitari:
*OPEN LETTER TO GOVERNOR DOUYE DIRI OF BAYELSA* : *ON THE CHINESE LANGUAGE.*



This message is coming from the leadership of the Lovers of Ijaw Nation Organization (LINO).
This is an Ijaw Civil Rights Organization with the Motto "Ijaw Nation First" and it is created to see to it that the Ijaw Nation is always United, Organized and Balanced in all aspects and at all times.



In as much as we are peaceful Organization, we are also aware that Self Determination is not a crime if you are peaceful and that is what we are.
Because of LINO, Ijaw now have Ijaw Republic Suit For Referendum in Abuja High Court, we have given Ijaw Republic Documents to United Nations and we cannot allow the Nigerian Governor play with the mind of Ijaws in the name of bringing Chinese as new language when Ijaws do not learn Ijaws in Ijaw Nation.



We asked you to agree to the language engineering central dialect as being worked upon by LINO by writing to you 2 years plus ago but you were bent on the Kolokuma or nothing else thereby putting your Clan first before the rights of the whole tribe.



The language engineering that is inclusive of all Clans has been completed and we look for supports to launch it, but you'd rather enforce Chinese on Ijaws when Chinese cannot enforce your language on their people.



The Kolokuma you enforced in the name of Ijaw, nobody learns it.
No Clan would leave their dialect and learn your own.
Ijaw have 2,800 towns, villages and settlements and being the Governor of Bayelsa of which the word "BAYELSA" does not have direct meaning to the name of the tribe does not make you know it all.




If because of Ijaw you arrest me, I am here waiting for you.
No Ijaw language in schools, no balanced movie industry for employments,no balanced music industry, so many Ijaws cannot speak their language and do not even know anything about who is Ijaw or not and you decide to enforce Chinese on Ijaws when we haven't settled central one for us.



Ijaw belong to us all.
I am Kolokuma like you but I am not one sided.
I believe that the Ijaw Nation belongs to us all and every group deserve equal rights..




Even that Chinese you are enforcing on Ijaw was done through same language engineering that you refused supporting LINO on.
Igbos, Yorubas, Hausa among others also got theirs through language engineering.



In conclusion, the Lovers of Ijaw Nation Organization express total disapproval on the method you use in promoting Ijaw Nation because it doesn't potray the nation as filled with intellectuals and we fully stand against this clearly wrong approach of foreign language again.
English was enforced, then French followed and now you bring Chinese without thinking of you dying language that so many Ijaw Communities now speak other people's language.
We will stand against this until the needful get done.




@General Ditari

President LINO.

Lexusgs430:
Fubara is on trouble now....... He is just in government, but got no power........

If he misbehaves again...... He would be impeached.......😜😂

Get involved with politics in Nigeria, at your peril....... 😅🤣

GeneraDitari:


So that fvvls like you can read.

DMerciful:
Fubara is worse than Ambode.

An extremely weak man.

A governor that's behaving like a student. If a snake does not behave like a snake, children will use it to tie firewood

GeneraDitari:
*OPEN LETTER TO GOVERNOR DOUYE DIRI OF BAYELSA* : *ON THE CHINESE LANGUAGE.*



This message is coming from the leadership of the Lovers of Ijaw Nation Organization (LINO).
This is an Ijaw Civil Rights Organization with the Motto "Ijaw Nation First" and it is created to see to it that the Ijaw Nation is always United, Organized and Balanced in all aspects and at all times.



In as much as we are peaceful Organization, we are also aware that Self Determination is not a crime if you are peaceful and that is what we are.
Because of LINO, Ijaw now have Ijaw Republic Suit For Referendum in Abuja High Court, we have given Ijaw Republic Documents to United Nations and we cannot allow the Nigerian Governor play with the mind of Ijaws in the name of bringing Chinese as new language when Ijaws do not learn Ijaws in Ijaw Nation.



We asked you to agree to the language engineering central dialect as being worked upon by LINO by writing to you 2 years plus ago but you were bent on the Kolokuma or nothing else thereby putting your Clan first before the rights of the whole tribe.



The language engineering that is inclusive of all Clans has been completed and we look for supports to launch it, but you'd rather enforce Chinese on Ijaws when Chinese cannot enforce your language on their people.



The Kolokuma you enforced in the name of Ijaw, nobody learns it.
No Clan would leave their dialect and learn your own.
Ijaw have 2,800 towns, villages and settlements and being the Governor of Bayelsa of which the word "BAYELSA" does not have direct meaning to the name of the tribe does not make you know it all.




If because of Ijaw you arrest me, I am here waiting for you.
No Ijaw language in schools, no balanced movie industry for employments,no balanced music industry, so many Ijaws cannot speak their language and do not even know anything about who is Ijaw or not and you decide to enforce Chinese on Ijaws when we haven't settled central one for us.



Ijaw belong to us all.
I am Kolokuma like you but I am not one sided.
I believe that the Ijaw Nation belongs to us all and every group deserve equal rights..




Even that Chinese you are enforcing on Ijaw was done through same language engineering that you refused supporting LINO on.
Igbos, Yorubas, Hausa among others also got theirs through language engineering.



In conclusion, the Lovers of Ijaw Nation Organization express total disapproval on the method you use in promoting Ijaw Nation because it doesn't potray the nation as filled with intellectuals and we fully stand against this clearly wrong approach of foreign language again.
English was enforced, then French followed and now you bring Chinese without thinking of you dying language that so many Ijaw Communities now speak other people's language.
We will stand against this until the needful get done.




@General Ditari

President LINO.