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PulaPower:
I no dey worship human being, only Jah..

Reno confirmed? Is Reno a USA judge? Somebody that wasn’t indicted of any drug crime is far from being a drug trafficker..

How come CSU didn’t reverse Tinubu’s admission? Do you know more than them?

Why hasn't Tinubu sued Reno Omokri?

Tjra:
Fubara's media boys are now working overtime.

Eyes don clear

Who is the current speaker of Lagos state house of assembly?

PulaPower:
The thing pain you gan. It was as if nah you be Pandora..

Tinubu is not an Ibo man so being a drug trafficker is far from him.. but

Certificate forger? No, he’s a graduate of CSU. If you don’t know this, then I was very correct. You have a low IQ..

Hardship? Are you hungry and starving? People around you, are they hungry and starving? Your family, are they hungry and starving? You mean nah only sufferness you dey see since Jagaban became president? You mean you no dey see people wey dey make ham? Where do you live?

Reno Omokri, whom you all worship today, confirmed that he is a known drug lord. He even challenged Tinubu to sue him in court if he is not a known drug lord, but up till today, Tinubu has not taken up that challenge.

A CSU graduate indeed. He got admitted to the school by claiming to have attended Government College Lagos four years before it was founded, thereby becoming the guinea pig student used to test-run the school. Certificate forgery!

Maybe you did forged certificates as well

PulaPower:
This Obi no just get level..

People supporting him must be of low IQ..

You get levels na as per sey you support a notorious narcotics drug trafficker, certificate forger, buccaneering power grabber engaging in criminal state capture who has inflicted untold hardships, hunger and starvation never witnessed in the history of this country

press9jatv:
Congratulations 🍾. Hopefully corp members will collect their #77k allowance this month end.

We hope so. However, this is sheer wickedness and evil on the part of the Tinubu government for not paying corp members the new minimum wage seven months after it was signed into law."

Righthussle:
That is how to impeach a law abiding governor

Sim Fubara will be impeached without recourse to the laws of the land. If he's not ok with it, he should go to court. The young man does not have regards for our laws. He disobeys court judgement like he is above the law.

In one breath, Sim Fubara will be impeached without recourse to the laws of the land; in another breath, Sim Fubara doesn't have regard for the laws of the land.

It's obvious there’s a disconnect in your thought process

LegendHero:
Judiciary did the sane thing that needs to be done. How can Fubara in good conscience believe he can use 4 house of rep member to pass budget and sign it the next week? Is that even how to run a government?

See Osun state LG election for example, a complete sham. If INEC run federal election like that, no opposition will win any election in 5000 years. Other State governors are also guilty of same.

Any one of you that wants to foment trouble will be jailed.

Which election are you referring to as a sham?

I hope it is the one conducted by Oyetola in 2022, with the 'Yes' or 'No' ballot papers that he claimed were printed with 2 billion Naira? In saner climes, Oyetola would have been in jail for treason. However, under the leadership of a notorious narcotics trafficker, certificate forger, and buccaneering power grabber engaging in criminal state capture, he is a minister, using the court to install local government chairmen and councilors who are products of that sham election.

favor914:
Nonsense lazy Almijiri talk, How many jobs your state government done create for u based on their comparative advantages?

Before u & your Aboki brethren dey wait for Abuja.

You obviously lack the capacity to comprehend simple English

Where's the money saved from subsidy removal?

The wheel of governance must continue

Obiedun:
Of course you are but you must govern in accordance with the laid down rules.

Who laid down the rules with which he must govern?

phantom:
Oga, go and hold Obasa. Leave issues of courage for courageous people.

You ronu fools are cowards... from time immemorial. The whole world knows.

Your mouth dey run. Once I shout OBASA now you go hide 😂 ... morons!!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Kingosytex:
Lagos would have done same, but over 60% the internationally generated IGR is in someone's pockets
Baba is hoarding money for 2027.

He has been siphoning it for over two decades and counting through a blueprint conduit pipe he built, connecting the coffers of the Lagos State Treasury to his personal pocket.

seunmsg:
The lengthy piece of trash was published by Vanguard, the propaganda arm of Ipob/Obidient.

Seunsmg, you are an irredeemable ethnic bigot.

Another piece of gibberish from Nairaland's most notorious creator of senseless threads and comments.

OlofofoCorner:
You are still dancing around the question.....making irrelevant excuses for Fubara.....
What he did, was it legal?

So his problem with Wike makes him , go against the law? Then that's is a sign of a foolish person.......
The law doesn't give a darn about his personal problem with Wike or anybody.....Do the right thing.....and he won't have any problem......He is the Governor for God sake......but he chose to be acting like a local government chairman.......

I still maintain that one must stand on solid moral ground before asking what is legal or not.

You will never see all the Agbadorians, BATerians, Mandate standers, or paid agents on this thread.


The new minimum wage was signed into law over seven months ago, and the Tinubu-led federal government has yet to pay corps members the new minimum wage. And you will say that this Tinubu is not wicked and evil?

OlofofoCorner:
What Furobara did , was it legal?

One needs to stand on good moral ground to begin asking what is legal and what is not.

Wike has since ceased to be the governor of Rivers State; he is now the Minister of the FCT. What does he still want from the coffers of Rivers State's treasury?

If he were still the governor, would he tolerate what he is meting out to Fubara?

But this current reality contradicts the propaganda machinery of Tinubu, the APC, and their hordes of urchins, BATerians, and paid agents who claimed that food prices are coming down.

…after S/Court setback


•We’re watching developments — INC/PANDEF
•Gov: It is not over yet


It is exactly 16 months since the political crisis broke out in Rivers State between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike. For one year and four months, Rivers, prided as the hub of West African oil and gas, has been embroiled in a war of attrition over the control of its political soul.



But last Friday’s Supreme Court verdicts gave what may change the political destiny of the state for a long time. The judgement hit the state like a thunderbolt, leaving in its wake silence and despair on one side, joy and jubilation on the other.

It was shocking that from Thursday, February 27, some allies of Wike were seen on social media celebrating ahead of the court judgment, which later went their way on Friday.

Before now, there were five consolidated cases at the Supreme Court, one was dismissed a fortnight ago while four were left. The four consolidated cases include SC/CV/1174/2024, between Rivers State House of Assembly and others against the Rivers State Government and nine others, and SC/CV/1175/2024, between Rivers State House of Assembly and others against the Rivers State Governor and nine others.

Others were SC/CV/1176/2024, between Rivers State House of Assembly and others against Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC, and nine others; SC/CV/1177/2024, between Rivers State House of Assembly and others against the Accountant General of Rivers State and nine others, and SC/CV/1071/2024, between Rivers State House of Assembly and others against the National Assembly and 16 others. (The last one has already been dismissed).

When the judgment was finally given by the apex court on the four consolidated cases, Fubara was literally stripped of his political structure as it invalidated the October 5, 2024, local government elections, his influence on the state legislature, and validated the suspension of federal allocations.

Succinctly, the reinstated 27 lawmakers loyal to Wike are returning to the status quo with a mindset of revenge having been denied the paraphernalia of their legislative office for many months and Wike, having had his ego dangerously bruised by Fubara’s audacious opposition to his (Wike’s) domineering posture on the state.

Impeachment
The greatest fear in the Fubara camp is that with the Supreme Court matter done and dusted, many think pro-Wike group would not hesitate to implement their initial plan. That is the impeachment of Fubara.

Several reliable sources confirmed this fear. They hinted that the process is not planned to take a long time to accomplish. Accordingly, the 27-assembly lawmakers, who are now likely to carry out the dictates of their master, may call for the head of the Attorney General after “the suspension of the 3-man Victor Oko-Jumbo Assembly”.


Why Supreme Court sacked Rivers LG Chairmen, restored pro-Wike lawmakers
Wike set the ball rolling when he allegedly said: “All Fubara’s commissioners and his 3-member assembly are all gone. They are not commissioners, they never existed in the first place. I am sure his so-called Attorney-General will not go and say he is the Attorney-General of Rivers State again. He knows the consequences of saying that, he knows that he is gone”.

INC/PANDEF
President of Ijaw National Congress, INC, Professor Benjamin Okaba, reacting to the apex court’s judgment on Saturday, called for calm, saying the judgment was not the end of the matter.

“We are still studying the implications of the judgment. When we discovered that the issue of defection was not mentioned by the Supreme Court, it left us confused. For now, we want everybody to be at peace and go about their normal responsibilities”, Okaba said.

He noted that, as a pressure group, INC will continue to work within the confines of the law of the land. But “if injustice is seen to have taken an upper hand, we then will decide on what next to do”.

Also, Chief Anabs Sara-Igbe, a chieftain of pan-Niger Delta Elders Forum, PANDEF, said whatever must have been the outcome of the judgment “is not strange to us.”

He alleged that before now, Wike had been boasting that “the Supreme Court was in his pocket”.
Sara-Igbe said he was waiting to see how the Supreme Court would reverse itself by saying that Martin Amaewhule and the 26 other lawmakers who defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, are members of the Assembly.

According to him, the suspension of the state’s allocation is a call for violence “so that they will declare a state of emergency in Rivers State. To suspend the revenue of a federating unit means that they are calling for a crisis. We pray this does not truncate our democracy”.

Options For Fubara
With the major consolidated cases before the Supreme Court against him, it does appear that the only lifeline left for the governor is the case of the defection of the 27 lawmakers to the APC.

It is important to note that of all the five consolidated cases brought before the Supreme Court, defection was not one of them. This explains why the judgment was silent on the matter.

As they say in the legal system, the court cannot give you what you didn’t ask for. The Supreme Court did not rule on the defection of the 27 lawmakers because it was not brought to its table for determination.

While the defection case is still in the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, it is not clear whether the pro-Wike House of Assembly would have the patience to allow Fubara enjoy the long process of following the case through up to the Supreme Court.

They know that the defection case is a bad one by every inch of the Constitution. So, what may follow is to quicken the process of getting the governor out of the way to naturally kill the case once and for all.

On the options open to the embattled governor, Sara-Igbe believes that as a strategist, Fubara will wait for the final determination of the defection matter. ”Fubara believes in God. And God will make his enemies fools”, he said. He said: “If Amaewhule and his co-travellers go ahead to impeach the governor, there will be resistance.”

Also speaking on the options, Okaba stated: “Fubara is a strategist. His options will depend on the interpretation of the judgment. There is no cause to panic. We have to wait and get the interpretation of the judgment”.


Also speaking, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, a chieftain of APC in Rivers State, said the only option for Fubara “is prayer”. According to him, “ enemies of the state have taken over, the only thing left for the governor is to pray for God’s intervention.

Another possible option Fubara may undertake to save his neck from the political guillotine, according to a top Ogoni politician who prefers anonymity, is to decamp to the APC.

“Yes, there are various options open to him. One of that is a political solution to the crisis. In doing that, he would be given conditions to fulfill. One of that is to decamp to the APC to guarantee President Tinubu of 2027”, the source said.

Fubara had already created what could be a formidable platform for his political future when he directed all the 23 local government chairmen to contest the October 5 council election on the platform of the Actions Peoples Party, APP.

It’s not over –Fubara
Despite the turn of events, Fubara appears unruffled. A credible source close to the state government confided in Sunday Vanguard that “the governor was full of life when we spoke on phone. I called him to encourage him to stay strong. He told me it is not over yet.”


Another source argued that every impeachment has its own process. “Before things are concluded to get the governor out of the way, the defection case must have been concluded. That is the way he could wriggle himself out of the shame of possible impeachment,” he said.

The weeks ahead would be loaded with surprises. As things stand, Rivers people and the entire nation are waiting to see where the pendulum swings.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/03/rivers-anxiety-as-fubara-loyalists-weigh-options/