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Westman001:
Mention countries where they have extract, destroy and never go away.

When Dada cannot fight, he turn to his person powerful enough to do so.

The man made a very wise move.

The minerals he's offering as a bargain is already mostly occupied by the rebels. To get it back from the rebels and save his country it's only wise to use it as a bargain.

That question is unbelievable young man. Please take your time to read about colonialism in Africa. Read about imperialism. Maybe you were not in this world when the likes of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso chased the French away their countries. Maybe you were not aware that the Nigeriens asked the Americans to move their base away. I do not have to teach you that. Read please.

So you do not know that the Americans will only act on interest. They are able to support the rebels to the disadvantage of the same man and his country who invited them. When it comes to international politics, power and economy, interest in very paramount.

If the rebels occupy more area where the minerals are located, why not bargain with the rebels, if it offers better advantage. Or are you not aware that foreigners powers sponsor coups in African countries?

Where is the wisdom in his move please?

Read first and the revert to me.

adioolayi:
"I have closely followed developments in Rivers State in the past two days, and my initial silence was informed by the desire to let the authorities and parties in the conflict to do what is right."

another joker!
So, the events at Rivers State started 2 days ago Elder statesman, you were sleeping Sir

Anyways, all opposition leaders....NNPP, LP, PDP should bury their heads in shame, for their inability to prevail over their members at the NASS!
It clearly shows their members do not respect their parties...internal democracy at those parties is zero!

One of them was even issuing a statement to elected NASS members from his party on social media ...very sad one!

Anyways, it's clear there is no opposition in Nigeria...and you guys will selfishly give power to APC and Tinubu in 2027...I just don't see how you can defeat this man.

Nonsense!

Sir, are you saying that you did not follow the proceedings in the National Assembly? Is it so bad that you do not understand what it means to put up such a weighty matter for debate? Was there any debate? Why did the SP put up a voice vote, rather than get the yes or no directly on paper from the a senators as prescribed in their books?

dominique:
And Emeka Ike turns 58 tomorrow March 22. He's got very very good genes, definition of black don't crack.



Google begs to differ

13/12/64.
Check again.

Added to that, there are people who are 30, yet look far older than people of 45. Nature does it all.

So Senator Natasha was right afterall. Even the Senators have a dictator as their leader.

They will extract, destroy and you will beg them to go away. African leaders never learn. The leaders are busy looting their own resources, while the rebels loot in the areas possessed by them.

Fix your country.

Wike will be 61 in December please.

Tareq1105:
They're all Greek gifts. It doesn't have anything to do with loving the people but pretentious.

Greek gift, yet most of the receivers cannot afford for themselves.
Greek gift, yet appreciated by the same people.
Greek gift, yet something to help them break their fast.
Greek gift, yet no complain from the receivers.
Have you given the real gift to any of them during this period?

What’s your own problem with that?

Thiefobi1:
Who is this blocked brain.

A lout and a carrion like you should not talk where decent people are talking.

What did you expect in the first place? All that abracadabra of fuel price reduction from Dangote, go me, was never real. Petrol price in a little time will far exceed 1,000 per liter.

Even the so called Pastor’s wife needs the cane for the show back dress she was wearing in the church. Absolutely the Pastor’s wife must be an irresponsible woman.

The authorities must take up this matter.

Baxilexi:
Agreement is an agreement - such a foolish consistency adored by slaves. I guess we should still submit or commonwealth to the British by this maxim.

If an agreement is detrimental to the people, the constitution, convictions, oath of office and personal contrition. Should it still be honored?

Personally this saga has opened my eyes to the multifaceted nature of our problems.

Nigerians don't want a good society, they just want someone they know to access the treasury, by hook or crook and share. David Cameron couldn’t have said it better- “fantastically corrupt.”

How we are not vexed that people can boldly speak of putting others in office, like we run an oligarchy or monarchy is bemusing. Instead we vilify the unwilling or repentant subject for turning a new leaf.

Even the 3 wisemen in the Bible didn’t honor their promises to Herod because of his inimical intent. So what do we actually pray for concerning Nigeria as Christians and Muslims? To change whose heart?

Just the other day in Lagos, a group of men voiced their position beyond the veil as being the grundnorm of authority in the Lagos assembly and no one sees the inanity in their statement.
Same in kogi, an ex-governor uses the current governor as a vassal and no one sees anything wrong with it.
And now port harcourt.

This is sad.

We lack norms, we lack values, we lack integrity.

Think for a minute, if Wike’s angst is for better schools, hospitals, jobs, welfare of his constituents or personal gains.

Now there is no need to look further for the reason Nnamdi Kanu cut off this man. He was accused severally of betraying the same Biafra that he was gunning for by collecting bribes. He has not been able to clear his name. Between his MASSOB and IPOB, we can now see which is more respected and which is more serious about the agitation. I am not in support for any, but when people of integrity are talking, Uwazuruike should hide his face.

Some basic questions were not asked in the so called agreement.

First did Fubara ever desire, plan or wish to become the governor? Without doubt, Wike sowed the seed in his heart, promised him and actualized it.
When he was declared wanted by EFCC, why did Wike hide him?
Why has EFCC not found success with probing the alleged 478b missing under Wike, while Fubara was the Accountant general?
Why did Wike brush off the likes of George Sekibo, Danagogo, tested politicians, to instal his so called small boy?
If Wike’s hands were clean, why not allow a very free primary election to choose the best candidate?

He simply positioned Fubara to cover up his tracks. He thought that it would be business as usual between godfathers and weak godsons. Well, this godson wanted his freedom and he got it.

Let’s watch it for the next elections. Now we know that in Rivers politics, Fubara is not a pushover. Other powerblocs are waiting to push the overbearing Wike and his group out of power, and they will achieve it.

Just one man fights everyone and no one sees any wrong in it. He’s fighting the same PDP that he swore not to find peace if he betrayed. He’s fighting Ireti Kingibe. He’s fighting Ijaw people as it stands. He’s fighting Amaechi, Odili and others in Rivers state. Very soon he will fight the same Tinubu.

maisauki:
Is the Bible really worth following 🤔

Don’t follow it. You are not forced. You are not coerced.

Thiefobi1:
Hypocrite.

Obi was doing almost same thing and u ibos praise him.

You're mocking saraki because he is not from southeast.

U re a bigot.

Shut your stinking mouth and bow your horrible frog like face in shame.

Where’s the mockery in that comment? Don’t politicians use such occasions to their advantage? I do not believe that Saraki used this for political campaign. I know that it was the right thing to do, knowing the Ramadan is synonymous with giving.

Did that comment by any means refer to a tribe? If you needed to correct him, why refer to the Igbos? What’s that got to do with the noble and decent venture of Saraki. If the fellow did not understand the usefulness of Saraki’s giving, why not correct him appropriately.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

alcaptainero:
Did you hear senator Dickson shouting and pointing when the senate president asked him to take his seat?

Did you hear Akpabio talking down on Seriake Dickson first?

If Akpabio only spoke in this manner with Natasha, we would never have heard these horrible stories.

We all know Seriake Dickson’s stance about Rivers state. We agree with him.

kedeojo:
Even Fubara knows that tinubu has tactically save him from impeachment. He will now listen to the president during this six months and mend fences with the lawmakers. He should distance himself from now till resumption from south east bitter comrades cos they almost destroyed his political career. Tinubu used one stone to kill two birds. Everything is sense not nzogbu nzogbu ways.

Funny APC people. Always deflecting matters with their baba sope mentality. Your happiness when Tinubu with Wike’s ojoro knee no bounds. Now your desperation to turn Rivers state into an APC state has brought the state to a standstill.

Why not tell your 27 cowards to remain with your APC? How did they decamp to APC and suddenly they no longer decamped. You saw it and still lied that you did not see it.

Everything is no sense for baba sope people.

PressMyButton:
E shook me but no too shock me that Fubara's camp also are in support of the state of emergency. They know that Mr President gave them a lifeline, otherwise they would have been impeached.



He's throwing stones at Obidients, he know say na dem carry Rivers matter for head like gala. He said make una leave Rivers State alone as dem no want wahala again. Make una face una state, busybody.

Stop deceiving yourself. How many times has Wike said that he wants to win Rivers state for Tinubu in 2027? APC and its desperate supporters like you are striving hard to remove the state from PDP. Why not face the truth that the major problem in Rivers state is Wike/APC and the supporters?

Bestmanfornow:
See how God take punished our enemies immediately Anambra state was declared oil producing state during Jonathan Kogi people and the rest started dragging the oil field now God now opens up another Sweet crude in Ogbaru which we doesn't share boundary with those enemies

That’s for crude oil.

Any news about gas? At least for now it is no secret that Anambra and Imo states hold the biggest gas reserves in the federation.

Anyway, whether you hold the highest or lowers reserves, it is nothing when leadership is very poor. The whole nation has leadership problem, and that’s why Nigerians as a whole suffer in the midst of plenty.

By the way, what’s the situation with Agulu - Ekwulobia - Uga route? What about the bridge? Have those people selling wares under the bridge moved, as requested by Soludo?

Thanks always for your updates.

AndroBlaze:
First of all, laws of the Federation are different from the constitution. All laws have to do is make sure they do not go against anything the constitution says for a law to be valid or accepted as constitutional.

Now more importantly, please tell us when the Supreme court ruled and said a president cannot suspend a governor when a State of Emergency is declared. Please we ask you provide us the exact scenario when this was determined and not hearsay.

“In 2004 and 2006, we condemned the illegal dissolution of democratic structures when President Olusegun Obasanjo imposed emergency rules on Plateau State and Ekiti State, respectively. Regrettably, on both occasions, the Supreme Court refused to determine the constitutional validity of the dissolution of democratic structures on the ground that the suit were procedurally incompetent because they were instituted during the six-month emergency period by the suspended legislators in the name of Plateau State without the authorization of the Sole Administration of the state!

However, in 2013, when a state of emergency was declared in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States by former Presidents Goodluck Jonathan, we urged him to reject the pressure mounted on by anti democratic forces to remove the elected Governors and dissolve democratic structures in the affected States. President Jonathan followed the path of constitutionalism.

In 2021, the then Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami SAN announced the plan of the federal government to declare a state of emergency in Anambra State over insecurity and threat to a complete breakdown of law and order in that part of the Federation We advised President Buhari not to demolish democratic structures even if emergency rule was imposed on the state. President Buhari followed the path of constituionalism.

In the cases of Adegbenro vs. Attorney-General of the Federation (1962) 1 NLR 338 F.R.A. Williams V Dr. M.A. Majekodunmi (1962) 1 NLR 328 the Supreme Court of Nigeria validated the Emergency Powers Act 1961 to justify the dissolution of democratic structures as well as suspension of fundamental human rights in western region. As there is no equivalent of the Emergency Powers Act 1961 under the current constitutional dispensation, the suspension of an elected Governor by an elected President is a constitutional anomaly under the 1999 Constitution.

In Attorney General of the Federation v. Attorney General of Abia State & Ors (2024) LPELR-62576 (SC) filed by the Bola Tinubu administration, the Supreme Court of Nigeria held that the removal of elected chairmen and councilors as well as appointment of sole administrators or caretaker committees by State Governors to run local government councils are illegal and unconstitutional. It follows to reason that the suspension of elected governors and elected members of the House of Assembly by the President is illegal and unconstitutional in every material particular.

To that extent, a serving or retired military officer can not be imposed as a Sole Administrator to govern any state in Nigeria. Similarly, a military officer cannot be appointed by the National Assembly as a Sole Administrator to govern the Nigerian people during a war between Nigeria and another country.

In the Speaker, Bauchi State House of Assembly v Hon Rifkatu Danna (2017) 49 WRN 82 and several other cases, Nigerian Courts have held that the suspension of elected legislators is illegal and unconstitutional. Therefore, the National Assembly should not endorse the illegal suspension of the Rivers State legislators that have not defected from the People’s Democratic Party to the All Progressive Congress. Instead of approving the illegal dissolution of democratic structures in Rivers State, the National Assembly should assist Governor Fubara by invoking its powers under section 11 (4) of the Constitution “to make laws for the peace, order and good government of that State”

Therefore, we are compelled to call on President Bola Tinubu to follow the path of constituionalism without any delay. The President should proceed to reinstate the suspended Governor Fubara and Deputy Governor Odu and restore all democratic structures in Rivers State. This call is without prejudice to the duty imposed on the President to adopt extraordinary measures to restore law and order in Rivers State under Governor Fubara in strict compliance with the provisions of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 as amended”

Femi Falana SAN

This fellow will always talk rubbish.

Looking at the Emergency Powers (Repeal and Re-enactment) Act, 2018, which part of it explicitly grants the President the right to either suspend or remove an elected governor and members of the state house of assembly? Where is it stated there please. The processes of removing a governor are well known.

By the way, does Reno Omokri know more than the entire Nigerian bar association? Reputable lawyers have severally over the years stated that it is unlawful in a democracy for a President to suspend or remove a governor, looking at the relevant sections of the law.

Granted that BAT move to prevent a breakdown of law and order, or the destruction of the nation’s oil assets, we must not fail to state it the way it is.

Now it is time to put that law to test in the courts.

How can a known tout call other people touts?
It’s like a mad man looking at someone and asking the person if he is mad.

One day one aboki looked at a young trader and said: you I no get sense. Everyone laughed and laughed. The young man wondered how the aboki would tell him that he did not have sense. We then asked him if he thought that abokis no get sense? The boy shouted: my own don finish o. Aboki say I no get sense.

APC supporters in Kogi central at work. They are still suffering the pain of the young lady defeating them. Na dem go still lose.

oyeb15:
She's loved in Kogi.
APC are bent in destroying Nigeria. This is a sad time for d people of Nigeria

The aggrieved supporters of APC in Kogi central. Waste of time.

madridguy:
I think say dey say Ijaw people are not coward... Why SIM packed him load? Why not bring his boys as him dey brag?

God Almighty, as you do for the new Sole Administrator, no campaign, he no spend money, no T-shirt, no face cap Baba just enter power, this can favour let it locate me and my family members.. Amin.

What a very foolish, reckless and irresponsible comment that you made. Why trivialize such a serious national matter, making mockery of an entire tribe?

People like you bring extreme shame to this forum and make decent people believe that this forum only thrives on racism and tribalism. You should bow that your ugly head in shame.

How can you get the favour that you crave for, when you do not even know what you are doing? You thought that the man that you referred to got to that position by sitting on his backside and looking endlessly into his phone. Or maybe he got there by acts of laziness. Or he got there by supporters irresponsible leaders. Keep on waiting for manner, while others work hard day and night, to achieve success life.

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AndroBlaze:
This thing has clearly turned ethnic.

I couldn't hear what they were saying but I can easily guess who the "PDP" woman in PH is supporting (by using her name) and who the Bayelsan IJaw woman is supporting.

This is what happens when a crisis is allowed to fester for too long due to irresponsible leaders.

Agreed with you.

Certainly they follow different leaders. The Rivers woman, going by her name must be an Ikwerre woman and a Wike supporter. Afterall Wike said that he purchased the nomination forms for all of them. The other lady, is an Ijaw woman.

Do not forget that Wike and Seriake Dickson had their own misunderstandings too.

I think that the excesses of Wike must be checkmated. Not only has he caused trouble for the people of Rivers state, he has put the whole country in high alert and the Nigerian economy in danger.

Smartcitizen:
Hahaha hahaha 🤣😂!


Dishonorable APC members.

You will go home disgraced, no be Nigeria again?


🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I call them cowards. They are even worse than cowards. They lack integrity in its absolutely sense. Greed and complete slavery overwhelmed them and they should be ashamed of themselves. Certainly most of them will not return in 2027 and I do not envisage Martin Amaewhule returning as the speaker in 2027.

They decamped to APC, following the lead of their master Wike, who has vowed to win Rivets state for Tinubu in 2027. It was well publicized and acknowledged by Tinubu himself. We saw the terms of their agreement with Tinubu, where it was clearly stated that the 27 who decamped should be allowed to continue. If not for cowardice and total lack of integrity, why did they change their voices? I have no doubt in my mind that they will eventually fully embrace APC for the 2027 elections.

They thought in their tiny minds that a a state of emergency in the state would automatically remove the governor, his deputy and make Amaewhule the governor. They failed.

Shamelessly they have forgotten that as legislators, they have hardly done any job since about October 2023. They have largely been at home, not carrying out any function and no pay. What are they telling their consituents? No projects attracted. No oversight. No budget for them. Nothing. Now they have additional six months to sit at home. Yeye dey smell.

Inege:
Says who comrade. Its already too late for them.
Why didn't they wade into the crises in time

Did you read and understand the purpose of going up court, or you just read the headline and drew your conclusion?

SledgeHammerer:
Did u see wike as party to any of the numerous suits in this matter? U can as well say peter odili is part of the issue too.

No, I did not see Wike as the party, but the nightclub. What did you see?

Without delay, that’s the way to go.

seunmsg:
I still don’t get how cautioning Wike will remedy the situation in Rivers state. This is a straight fight between the governor and members of the state house of assembly.

Oga it is not and has never been a straight fight between the governor and members of the state house of assembly. Do you need to be reminded of the events in the state, before and after the inauguration of Fubara as the governor? Do you pretend not to have heard all Wike’s statements since September 2023 when their quarrel came to the public?

Wike and Fubara are the gladiators. Martin Amaewhule and his co-travellers are the “boy boy” used by Wike to fight Fubara. Wike needs to allow Rivers state and its people have some peace.

Now it’s time to go to court over it.

Let’s hear from the court, the legality or illegality of suspending a governor by the President. It must be laid to rest once and for all.

spencekat:
CJ won't be affected.

Correct. The same CJ who the legislators wanted to get out will remain for now.