Would Tinubu As Governor Have Accepted The Directives To Fubara? By Emmanuel Aziken

President Bola Tinubu has been a fighter on both sides in the contestation of power between the presidency and governors.

Last Monday and for the umpteenth time since his inauguration as president, Tinubu more than ever before brought to the fore his determination to use his new podium in the presidency to dominate his environment.


We have seen this attitude in the deification of the president by praise singers who have elevated Tinubu’s political anthem (On Your Mandate) to compete with the national anthem at state occasions.


In the latest example of the contestation for power, as was seen with Simi Fubara, the neophyte governor from Rivers State, we saw the governor surrender the patchy victories he had recently won last Monday at the sight of the president.

Before his presidency, Tinubu had also fought assiduously on the side of the governors against the encroachment of the powers of the states by the presidency.

It was while fighting from that position that he took the Olusegun Obasanjo presidency to court on a surfeit of issues in furtherance of the autonomy of the states.

Whether it was his personal revulsion of Obasanjo or for some other reasons, Tinubu took his spat to the extra level of regularly boycotting meetings of governors with the President. His appearances at such interactions between Obasanjo and governors were an exception.

It was in that pace that Tinubu became one of the few governors even among the opposition governors who opposed the third term amendment that would have ordinarily given them and the president another term in office.

In fact, Tinubu’s opposition to the third term amendment was a striking chunk for his beautification as one of the mainstays of democratic culture in the country.

However, having acquired his dream job of president, all eyes are now on Tinubu to sustain the legacy he built as a defender of federalism that was at the core of his battles with President Obasanjo while he was governor

Indeed, it is inconceivable to believe that Tinubu as governor would have submitted himself to such a parley as he presided over last Monday where he adjudicated between a sitting governor and his predecessor.

Indeed, Fubara had arrived last Monday night’s meeting with a bounce after bringing his predecessor, Wike to his knees. For doing that, the governor had won some popularity among Wike haters, particularly in Rivers State.

As it turned out in his adjudication, or presidential directive as one witness said, Tinubu turned back all the losses suffered by Wike and his protegees.

However, what has astounded many is the constitutional basis for the revisions that were decreed at that meeting.

Some of the decisions like the directive to re-present the 2024 budget proposal make a mockery of the democracy.


Some of the decisions are also seen as unconstitutional. How do you return the 25 or so lawmakers who violated the constitution by defecting and automatically losing their seats back as lawmakers?

A witness at the parley revealed that when the issue of the lawmakers who abandoned the PDP for the APC came up President Tinubu said that as the national leader of the APC, he could not see himself rejecting the lawmakers from the APC.

As it was told, the president laughed over it, saying that asking the lawmakers to return to the PDP would be like a father disowning his own children.

The witness, Hon David Briggs, a former chairman of Akuko-Toru Local Government Area has now revealed to the nation that what was claimed as an agreement between Fubara and Wike was more of a presidential directive that the president forced down the governor’s throat.

That several of the decisions reached at that meeting are contrary to the constitution brings to the fore the regard to which Nigerians would value our legal charter over the person of the president.

Indeed, the protest in Port-Harcourt yesterday by the coalition of workers, students, and civil society groups against the peace AGREEMENT reached between Governor Fubara and the camp of his predecessor, Wike is reflective of the popularity that Fubara has gained by distancing himself from his political mentor, Wike.

While Wike may have performed in building projects around Rivers State while he was governor, it is increasingly becoming clear that political projects are a different sort.

President Tinubu trying to help the former governor to build a political project on the head of the incumbent governor is clearly not working and it would be best for Tinubu to return to the years of his constitutional advocacy. Otherwise, the garlands that brought him forward could be enmeshed in a sullied legacy.

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The answer of course is a capital NO

Even Wike would not have accepted it.

SIM is a good man, and good men somehow never became good leaders

Leave Fubara alone, he want peace. Let the man be.

Simi is on his own if he accept Tinubu's directives. He will be outplayed or forced into APC cult.

Thls is exactly What happened during obasanjo regime when tinubu was the gov.of lagos

What tinubu did is called political solutions which the big gun in pdp should have, it's left for the governor to follow or not.

Obidients finally love Wike Stooge... Somebody they claimed was rigged against their candidate.

What a wonderful world... Anything anti-apc, you will see Obidients

madridguy:
Leave Fubara alone, he want peace. Let the man be.

shut up! it is president Ojuyobo salami thieffnubu that must stop meddling in river state affairs

designking:
Obidients finally love Wike Stooge... Somebody they claimed was rigged him against their candidate.

What a wonderful world... Anything anti-apc, you will see Obidients

why did you suddenly become wike defender?the same guy you love to insult 2 years ago

So he should have allowed them fighting?

Olatunji1929:
shut up! it is president Ojuyobo salami thieffnubu that must stop meddling in river state affairs

madridguy:
Leave Fubara alone, he want peace. Let the man be.

Fubara is a peaceful man and he wants peace, now do nyemso wike want that same peace?

It is left for the people of rivers to fight for their democracy.

madridguy:
So he should have allowed them fighting?

He should have called wike to order, that was what Rivers elders were calling him for, not to sell Rivers State to wike who had finished his own tenures without interference from anybody......

desiredhome:

Fubara is a peaceful man and he wants peace, now do nyemso wike want that same peace?

What advice do you expect from a condemned slave?
Someone who sings praises of his slavemaster for a living.
A willing slave will never advice you to fight your slavemasters.

madridguy:
So he should have allowed them fighting?

In your tiny brain only solution is to put Fubara in tight corner? Arguing with most of Apc supporters is like arguing with mentally deranged people. Spit

But Wike name was not mention in any of the court letters?

desiredhome:

He should have called wike to order, that was what Rivers elders were calling him for, not to sell Rivers State to wike who had finished his own tenures without interference from anybody......

madridguy:
But Wike name was not mention in any of the court letters?

What court letter?

Is Wike and Fubara fighting ?

desiredhome:

What court letter?

madridguy:
Is Wike and Fubara fighting ?

Dey your dey, make I dey abeg.......

madridguy:
So he should have allowed them fighting?

But people like you hailed Tinubu when he fought OBJ and the federal ministers against OBJ terms and conditions as president...

You guys speak from all sides of the mouth and you all hailed Tinubu as a defender of democracy against federal oppression, now tables have turned and you supporting federal oppression on a sitting governor and still hailing the same Tinubu for doing what OBJ tried to do that you all insulted OBJ.

Una hypocrisy bad gaaaaannnn

You are the biggest hypocrite here because the situation here is far different.

Brendaniel:


But people like you hailed Tinubu when he fought OBJ and the federal ministers against OBJ terms and conditions as president...

You guys speak from all sides of the mouth and you all hailed Tinubu as a defender of democracy against federal oppression, now tables have turned and you supporting federal oppression on a sitting governor and still hailing the same Tinubu for doing what OBJ tried to do that you all insulted OBJ.

Una hypocrisy bad gaaaaannnn

madridguy:
You are the biggest hypocrite here because the situation here is far different.

How is different, the question to ask is if Tinubu were Fubara and OBJ is the president would he have agreed to such terms and conditions from OBJ?

Did Tinubu demolished the House of Assembly complex as a governor?

Was there anytime he has a problem with the assembly members that the assembly divided into a two faction member?

Awaiting for your prompt reply.

Brendaniel:


How is different, the question to ask is if Tinubu were Fubara and OBJ is the president would he have agreed to such terms and conditions from OBJ?

madridguy:
Did Tinubu demolished the House of Assembly complex as a governor?

Was there anytime he has a problem with the assembly members that the assembly divided into a two faction member?

Awaiting for your prompt reply.

Please answer my question first then I will answer yours, I asked first.....

I don't know how to answer your question because the whole issue are not the same.

OBJ held Lagos allocation for 8 years. He did all he could do to snatch Lagos state but Tinubu was smarter. So what exactly is your point here.

Brendaniel:


Please answer my question first then I will answer yours, I asked first.....

madridguy:
Leave Fubara alone, he want peace. Let the man be.

Peace Under such wicked conditions

madridguy:
I don't know how to answer your question because the whole issue are not the same.

OBJ held Lagos allocation for 8 years. He did all he could do to snatch Lagos state but Tinubu was smarter. So what exactly is your point here.

The question is not about the cases, let's leave the cases aside for now, I am asking a simple question based on Imagination.

If Tinubu were in Fubara shoes as Rivers state governor now and OBJ was the president, would Tinubu agree to such terms and conditions from OBJ?

Tinubu won't have any other choice than to bow to OBJ in a situation like this.

Brendaniel:


The question is not about the cases, let's leave the cases aside for now, I am asking a simple question based on Imagination.

If Tinubu were in Fubara shoes as Rivers state governor now and OBJ was the president, would Tinubu agree to such terms and conditions from OBJ?

madridguy:
Tinubu won't have any other choice than to bow to OBJ in a situation like this.

Easier said than done, OBJ's fight with Tinubu wasn't even about appointments or taking control of any part or the state, just Local government issue and yet Tinubu fought him like he wanted to take full control of the state.

Now imagine OBJ trying to take control over Lagos state by proxy with such terms and conditions....

Like I said earlier, easier said than done....

Up till now I still don't know why you're just trying to match the both issues together.

Brendaniel:


Easier said than done, OBJ's fight with Tinubu wasn't even about appointments or taking control of any part or the state, just Local government issue and yet Tinubu fought him like he wanted to take full control of the state.

Now imagine OBJ trying to take control over Lagos state by proxy with such terms and conditions....

Like I said earlier, easier said than done....

madridguy:
Up till now I still don't know why you're just trying to match the both issues together.

Like I said earlier, the issue is not really the problem but the hypocrisy of Tinubu, Wike and all their supporters, something Wike and Tinubu will never take, not even 1/10 of such is what they are trying to make people believe they are doing the right thing.

Things that won't improve the economy or improve the living standard of Rivers people is what they call good, things that will fleece the people of good governance is what is being hailed as good democracy, greed and oppression on the people...