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By Stephen Angbulu

President Bola Tinubu, on Monday, urged Governor Siminalayi Fubara, political leaders and their supporters in Rivers State to exercise restraint and uphold the rule of law.

He urged the political actors and their supporters to settle their differences in court, saying, “Self-help has no place in a democratic system.”

The President’s admonition follows reports of arson and vandalism of public facilities in Rivers State after last Saturday’s local government elections.

In a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, the President ordered the police to guard public facilities to “restore and maintain peace, law and order immediately.”

The statement is titled, ‘President Tinubu decries violence in Rivers, directs police to provide security to local government offices.’

The Action People’s Party dominated the recent local government elections in the state when it secured 314 out of 319 councillorship seats across the state’s 23 local government areas.

The Chairman of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, Justice Adolphus Enebeli, announced the results in Port Harcourt on Sunday.

According to the RSIEC, the APP won 314 wards, while the All Progressives Congress, Labour Party, Social Democratic Party and Young People’s Party each clinched one seat.

The Rivers State PDP and the APC factions rejected the conduct and outcome of the election on Sunday, saying no election held on Saturday.

The Rivers PDP loyal to the former Governor, now Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, vow3d to challenge the results in court.

Meanwhile, the incumbent Governor, Fubara, who is now at loggerheads with his predecessor, has since sworn in the newly elected council chairmen of the 23 local government areas.

This has sparked tension in the state as supporters of each camp have laid siege to public facilities.

In response to recent tension, “the President expressed deep concern over reports of arson and explosions in the state,” Onanuga said.

The statement read, “He urged all political actors to de-escalate the situation and discourage their supporters from engaging in violence or destructive actions. President Tinubu directed the police to restore and maintain peace, law, and order immediately.


https://punchng.com/rivers-crisis-settle-your-dispute-in-court-tinubu-tells-fubara-others/

I don't trust tinibu on this. This is exactly what they told Obi, because they know that, the court will always do their bidding.

id4sho:
Chairperson in Rivers orders Wike’s name removed from council building named after minister
Wike hails from the council area and is a former chairperson of the council.

Chijioke Ihunwo, the newly inaugurated chairperson of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State has ordered that the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike’s name be blotted out of a building in the council secretariat.

Mr Ihunwo, who visited the council secretariat on Monday, ordered that the administrative block hitherto named after Mr Wike be renamed “Obi Wali House.”


The chairperson was at the secretariat about an hour after the Ikwerre and Emohua local government secretariats were set ablaze by hoodlums.

Mr Ihunwo was elected chairperson in the local election conducted on Saturday. The police barred officers from providing security for the election, citing a court order.



After the elections, the police unsealed all the council secretariats in Rivers.


The hoodlums, who attacked the two council secretariats, had a field day after the police operatives left.

“I want to advise Rivers State Police Command, let them be neutral,” Mr Ihunwo said in a video posted on his X handle on Monday.

“For this local government, we will protect and die,” he added. “They have burnt Ikwerre, and Emouhua (council secretariats). We are ready for them,” he said, daring the hoodlums.

“This name here,” he said, pointing to the top of a duplex in the council secretariat with the inscription “Chief Nyesom Ezenwo Wike ADMIN BLOCK.”



“He (Wike) does not allow the people to rest. On that note, as the chairperson of the council I have renamed it Obi Wali House,” he said amidst cheers.

He said the changes would be made tomorrow morning and dared anyone to challenge his decision.

Mr Wike first served as chairperson of Obio/Akpor local government council for two terms ending in 2007.

He was thereafter appointed as chief of staff to then-Governor Rotimi Amaechi, a position he served before he was appointed as minister of state for Education under the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

Mr Jonathan’s wife, Patience, who hails from Rivers State, helped Mr Wike to become the governor of the oil-rich state in 2015. He was reelected in 2019 serving through 2023 after which he was appointed the minister of FCT by President Bola Tinubu.

Mr Wike and his successor, Governor Siminalayi Fubara have been fighting each other over the control of the political structure in Rivers.

Obi Wali at a glance

Late Mr Wali hailed from Obio/Akpor. He was elected senator to represent Port Harcourt District.

Eric Teniola, a columnist in Vanguard newspaper said Mr Wali was in the league of intellectuals like Gani Fawehinmi, Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka.




Mr Teniola described Mr Wali’s intellectual contributions in the Senate as “exceptional.”

The late senator was murdered at home in his bedroom by suspected assassins on 26 April 1993.

In his memorial, the Rivers State Government in 2014 commissioned the Obi Wali Conference Centre in Port Harcourt to honour his political and literary contributions.

The people of his ethnic group – Ikwerre in Rivers State – instituted an annual memorial lecture in his honour.

Mr Ihunwo in the video said Mr Wali was an Ikwerre who had been of tremendous help to the people of Ikwerre.

“So, I have renamed it as Obi Wali House,” he announced.

This is the second time in four months that Mr Wike has been humiliated in his local government area, since the beginning of his political rift with Governor Fubara.

PREMIUM TIMES in June reported how the youths of the area violently pulled down Mr Wike’s statue in Obio/Akpor council secretariat.


The youths accused the minister of sending police to attack them for demanding council officials to vacate office after the expiration of their three-year tenure.

The former officials, who are allies of Mr Wike, had refused to vacate office, triggering violent clashes with Mr Fubara’s supporters which resulted in the death of two persons, including a police operative.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/south-south-regional/742931-chairperson-in-rivers-orders-wikes-name-removed-from-council-building-named-after-minister.html

That's good!
Other chairpersons should follow suit. In fact every chairperson in Rivers state should remove everything, that has to do with the low budget Hitler in his/her council.

Enough is enough!

[quote author=jmoore post=132298947][/quote]No be today we know say, reno the god of agbadorians is a pathological liar.

phantom:
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Good work boys.

PrinceOfLagos:
Rivers no be Lagos where drug kingpins call the shot

Wike, it's over for you politically in Rivers State . You're a disgrace to rivers state .

wike is nothing but a low budget Hitler flexing his tiny ant muscle in rivers state.

TinubuBarawo:
As it stands now wike is just a nobody in politics and have been rendered useless.
Remove ministerial position he's just a normal ex governor.
With the new sheriff in town and how important Rivers is when it comes to election, will wike still be that valuable to tinubu?

probably he'll increase his praise singing and media noise just to stay relevant.

Safe to say
THE RISE AND FALL OF WIKE.

The rise and fall of low budget Hitler.
Too many innocent blood he wasted is crying for vengeance.

Wike the low budget Hitler 🤣🤣🤣

[quote author=jmoore post=132325945][/quote]It's like Aisha is now all out for that idiotic reno who, happens to be the lord and personal saviour of agbadorians.

Quodseverismete:
Give APC 100years,,they have nothing absolutely nothing to offer Nigerians.


He is now face to face with reality dot com

I love this picture. APC hijacked naija but instead of them to move the country forward, they rendered it useless.
Okoroawusa (the Igbo wannabe) helinues, yarimo and blacknp.

yyba:
Do anyhow and see anyhow 🤣🤣

From who?

Celestialsword:
*NO REFERENDUM, NO ELECTION.*

*Asari Dokubo wrote:*

We, the people, must act now!
Some will brand this write-up “evil and a lie”, but facts and numbers don’t lie. Mathematics, they say, is a universal language.

*LET'S SET RECORDS STRAIGHT*

Out of the total of 360 House of Reps members, the entire South has 169, while the North has 191.
Here is the breakdown:

South East
Imo 10 Reps
Abia 8 Reps
Ebonyi 6 Reps
Anambra 11 Reps
Enugu 8 Reps Total 43.

South South
Akwa Ibom 10 Reps
Bayelsa 5 Reps
Cross River 8 Reps
Delta 10 Reps
Edo 9 Reps
Rivers 13 Reps Total 55 Reps.

SOUTHEAST & SOUTHSOUTH GRAND TOTAL =98 only.

South West
Ekiti 6 Reps
Lagos 24 Reps
Ogun 9 Reps
Ondo 9 Reps
Oyo 14 Reps
Osun 9 Reps Total = 71 Reps.

North West
Kano 24 Reps
Kaduna 16 Reps
Jigawa 11 Reps
Katsina 15 reps
Kebbi 8 Reps
Sokoto 11 Reps
Zamfara 7 Reps Total = 92 Reps.

North East
Adamawa 8 Reps
Bauchi 12 Reps
Borno 10 reps
Gombe 6 Reps
Taraba 6 Reps
Yobe 6 Reps Total = 48 Reps.

North Central
Benue 11 Reps
Kogi 9 Reps
Kwara 6 Reps
Nassarawa 5 Reps
Plateau 8 Reps
Niger 10 Reps Total = 49 Reps.

FCT 2 Reps.

GRAND TOTAL OF THE NORTH =191
The question is, how dare you upstage these people in a vote?
Even if Southeast, South-south, and Southwest joined together, it cannot upstage the North.

More facts coming...

*INJUSTICE OF OIL ALLOCATION IN NIGERIA (1)*

North Central receives 20%;
CONTRIBUTES 0.00%.
North East receives 16%;
CONTRIBUTES 0.00%.
North West receives 21%;
CONTRIBUTES 0.00%.
Every month, the 19 Northern states receive a minimum of 57% of 100% of oil revenue to which they CONTRIBUTE 0.00%.

South West receives 16%;
CONTRIBUTES 3.97%.

South East receives 11.00%;
CONTRIBUTES 25.07%.

South-South receives 15.00%;
CONTRIBUTES 70.64%.

More facts...
LGAs in NIGERIA:
Nigeria has 774 LGAs.
*The North has 19 states, and the 19 states have 419 LGAs.*

*The South has 17 states, and the 17 states have 357 LGAs.*

Working with the data from the Office of the Accountant General as published by the Ministry of Finance (April 2013), the 357 LGAs of the 17 southern states receive 45.1% of what they contribute 100%.

The 419 LGAs of the 19 Northern states receive 54.9% of what they contribute is 0.00%.
*So those hoping for a hopeless hope for restructuring should wake up. The North will Never allow restructuring because they know that they can't survive on a level playing ground.*
Let me stop here for now ..... a lot on my mind.

Now you see that the north is seriously draining and stifling the development of the south?

*One Nigeria is the biggest fraud ever and MUST end.*

*What the people of Nigeria need is a referendum to end this evil contraption called Nigeria and an emergence of the stifled nations within.*

We CAN NOT be silent about it. He that is silent in the days of the adversity of the oppressed, is more guilty and has taken the side of the oppressor.

*Let’s keep sharing it to create more awareness. Please share.*

#tvauthority #tvauthorityhistory #tvauthoritypolitics

Those wicked beings that want SE senators to bring the issue of Biafra to the senate and house of reps knows this. That's why whenever Igbos accuse them of not wanting to allow them go, they (wicked beings) will be the ones to tell Igbos to do what they know is impossible.

yyba:
Thank God Russia has nuclear weapons to nuk them, Incase they attempt to claim Russia belongs to them.

Russians are not miscreants like some people that will sell their lands because of hunger and hardship, only to cry over spilt milk later.

Bendeco02:
Russians are not low Life like you

They don't sell land and cry to have it back.

Russians have sense, they don't reason like your tribe's men

Good reply.

TinubuBarawo:
As a politician whenever you see tinubu ùrchins supporting you, just know that you're doing everything wrong to both your people and humanity.

these guys can never support anything good because their principal is a terrible person so they see supporting good thing as going against their principals.

So as a politician if you find yourself being supported by these people just know that you're on the wrong part.

Recently they don't care if rivers gets burned as far as their loyal boy wike have his way.
thank God people of Rivers resisted them.

God punish them.

Typical example of what you said can be seen in the way helinues, yarimo and okoroawusa (the Igbo wannabe) behaves.

helinues:
He had met with 2 Nigeria president. Worked for one already, potentials are there with the current president. Fluke or luck, worked way, that was a smart move .

In political journey, every steps must be well calculated. Just imagining Reno working fully for the reelection of president Tinubu in 2027, Oh boy

TN: This thread is for those with progressive mindset, those who are ready to move progressively in whatever they endeavour on not necessarily have to be politics

rino is now yruba new found love. Let's watch and see where this yeye love will end.

MasterJayJay:
Ebin mpiawa isi!


They dodged a bullet(Peter Obi), only to be hit with nuclear weapon of Tinubulation.

helinues, yarimo and Okoroawusa the Igbo wannabe

helinues:
Is your head full of tribal jingoistic? How come you can't express yourself without injecting tribes?

I learn am from you and your cohorts.

helinues:
Stop being bitter on my mentions

But you are always bitter on anything Igbo.

helinues:
So na the IGP be the court that gave orders of no election today?

Simi should stop acting like a sissy

You always support what is bad for Igbo people, why is it so?
Wike is una sissy because of his Hitler tendencies towards, the people that is supposed to be his own people.

Yeye dey smell!

helinues:
Toh

Perhaps he initially heard wrong thing from the holy spirit due to the generator noise

Kanu was right when he said Biafrans should avoid yoruba churches. But idiots started attacking him without trying to know why he said that.

porthouse7:
Peter obi is the master of double standard

For Obi he is not the cause of your country woes. Tinibu is the cause of your problem not Obi.

emmnprince:
From your comment he's a man of integrity and selfless leadership! Ok, to some extent I concur with you.

Kindly share 5, out of his many, good qualities of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

He is fighting for the freedom of his people.

He created ESN to tackle Fulani herdsmen menace

He created a radio station to educate his people about the wicked happenings in Nigeria which is against them.

He equally created a TV station for the purpose of showing his people some hidden visual documentaries.

He sacrificed his freedom and his family in UK for the emancipation of his people.

blacknp:
Incoherent Disillusioned Eyepobian, na your elders & papas they beg for that idiot freedom, Biafra indeed. https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/07/release-nnamdi-kanu-to-ohanaeze-igbo-union-begs-tinubu/

Incoherent disillusioned OPCian, there is a big difference between, what ohaneze stands for and what Kanu stands for.
Get this fact into that your thick skull.
Quote me when Kanu denounced Biafra.

[quote author=jmoore post=132280455][/quote]Let's see if the idiotic rino will reject the appointment. Because he twerks and arse lick tinubu and at same time pretend as if he don't need anything from tinibu
So let's see if he really meant what he said.

blacknp:
Person wey no just get any level just dey run em basketmouth, see as the FG just go cage the parrot.

After all the noise, una done abandon your sit @ home Monday’s, the canary is still inside the cage o.

You just dey talk rubbish.
I know you are disappointed because, Kanu has not denounced Biafra uptill this moment.

muykem:
He was consistently calling Nigeria a zoo until he was successfully tamed by former president Buhari. He is enjoying the zoo till now. UK has forgotten their citizen in Nigeria zoo. We must learn a lesson.

Has he denounced Biafra? If he has not, then the joke is on you.

helinues:
He has been eventually caged inside the zoo.

Lamidi Cownu, the Onikuje of Like prison

Caging him is not our problem and fear. Our fear and problem is making him to change his stand which is Biafra. You lots are free to make jest of yourselves forgetting the main thing which is denouncing Biafra.

JAPAHTML:
Sometimes I dey wonder why Nigerian youths can be so dull in reasoning
This guy is always making mouth 👄 saying all kinds of rubbish seeking attention from fools to grow his social media page
Why is this boy always attacking celebrities and pastors? Infact him, bobrisky, Tonto dike and portable na same group of people no different! Just that he studied how to manipulate an average Nigerian youth (olodos) and before you know it some small minded kids are already calling this boy an activist like how? WTF 🥲? Which activist? What makes him an activist? What did he do to deserve such a title? Does it mean that Education in Nigeria is now a waste of time?
So am activist is someone who goes about seeking attention from his fellow olodos💔 Damn this means that 70 percent of people making use of social media in Nigeria lacks common sense

Now let me ask some of you that are his fans a simple question
Are Nigerian pastors more evil than Politicians? Am not even a religious type can't remember the last time I went to church
Again why is it always this guy and other yeyebrities that have nothing to offer?

If this guy is real and mean business let him single out all the politicians Evil politicians in Nigeria and call them out with boldness just like he is doing to bobrisky but he can't 👌 he prefers to making noise up and down just to trend for no reasonable reason and some slowpoke already made him an activist lolzzx 😂😂 we are doomed

I know your problem, your problem is because he said the truth about reno and his arse licking adventure 🤣🤣

afube:
I doff my hat for Mazi nnamdi Kanu........hate him ,loathe him but give to him .......he is a man of integrity! Nigerians have never experienced selfless leadership so the unfortunates in nigeria can never recognize good leaders! nearly 3 and half years in detention Kanu remains unshaken!

That's why FG and some f©©lish Nigerians want him dead because they can't stand his integrity and selfless leadership. And the fact that he is Igbo with so many good qualities is making them mad.

bhella10:
This VERY Dumb Man is seeking attention and I pray Reno ignores him.

He is seeking attention from who?