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I have to humbly apologise for taking the sides of the wife. From the narrative of Emeka's P.A, it was she that first slapped her husband before he started beating her. Even though I am against men beating women, if my wife slaps me, would panel beat her before I regain my senses.
See the interview here;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ5fg6q6SEM?si=bNS3BPNtpg_Jrqp4

The wife is pretending to be a saint, while Emeka is the devil.

DeepSight:
Nobody should. But in his Christmas day address, Sim seems to have bent the knee. I hope its just a feint. I really hope so, otherwise, he has thrown away everything.

Believe me he did not. He was being diplomatic and strategic. He cannot confront Wike and Tinubu headlong right now, as he is fighting from the position of weakness. He is yet to be confirmed governor by the Supreme court, He has only 4 house of reps members in his camp, he does not have grass root support, PDP that should have come to his aid is comatose right now. He needs to buy time to consolidate his hold on power.
Paying the 27 legislators cash for Christmas should help in bringing some of them to his side. Paying civil servants money will also increase his profile among the people. I am 100% certain he will not recall the resigned commissioners, he will never approve the legislators to sit in any venue they choose.
Fubara can't do much until the supreme court makes a final judgement.

Tranquill:
It’s not even about Wike and that is what most people don’t know. Why do you think Wike is getting support even from Sims own immediate constituency? Sim was never a politician and couldn’t even win a councillorship election, Wike brought him onboard and many others did the legwork as foot soldiers for him to become governor.

It's all about Wike, about his overbloated ego. He wants to be the Jagaban of Rivers State without taking notes from the Jagaban himself. Wike is not the first Godfather that made a political nobody a governor, and he will not be the last. Tinubu has had disagreements with all his political godsons he made governor except Sonwo olu, he never treated them like shit.

Within 3 months, he started alienating these people, taking advice from other people that were vehemently opposed to his candidacy to build ‘his own structure’ and power base. Within 3 months, he wanted to sack all the LGA chairmen on the ground that they are loyal to Wike and then appoint his own loyalists as caretakers. These are the foot soldiers that made him governor. Why the so much rush just within 3 months? Why not let their tenure run out and an election conducted? Why the desperation? I hear one popular pastor in PH, whose presidential candidate didn’t win is among those misleading him.

Believe me the main issue is not the local government chairmen, its wikes authoritarian attitude, he wants to be running River's State from his office in Abuja. He appointed all commissioners, legislators, Local Government chairmen and aids of the governor including his personal aids. Fubara could not even award contacts without approval from Abuja (Wike).
Nobody and repeat nobody would accept such arrangement.

This is just one of the several things he started, that made Wike and his group to react. Who would just let that happen? Then they started spreading rumours about Wike demanding for 25% of Rivers State money among other falsehoods, Sim knew they were not true and did nothing to debunk them rather allowed the rumours to fester.

I am certain there is lots of propaganda from both sides, but one thing Fubara was complaining about was that the states monthly IGR reduced from N10 billion to N6 billion, and no one was explaining to him why?

It is not about governance and certainly not about money but more about the politics and Sim Fubara went about it like someone with evil intentions. That is the height of ingratitude!

Gratitude at the expense of the people of Rivers State? Politicians in Nigeria feels that only their interests matter and the masses are just pawns. How will gratitude to Wike translate into good governance for the people of Rivers State?

BALLOSKI:
Saharareporters is becoming more useless than I thought. They didn't even wait to get more details before pushing this out. Now the ingrates have been sent out and she's in her room now as the true tenant.

Sahara reporters are taking junk journalism to a different level. The publish stories without even checking how logical it is. Imagine saying a whole NDDC chairman (of 4 years) being homeless. Even the least director in NDDC can afford a house in UK, not to talk of its chairman.

It's certain she owned the house and her cousin was refusing to allow her take possession. Even from the video, the lady never claimed the house belonged to her, she was just claiming harrasement. If the house belonged to the lady, she would have called the police.

DonFreshmoney:
Nigerian women no dey ever get sense or use their head in marriage, emeka ike is remarried, sifr in Germany with lovely kids, ex wife isn't remarried, scorned and spiteful of her ex husband.. using their kids against the man. I just laugh at times

You guys are so misogynistic and have deep hatred for women that you wonder if you were given birth to by a woman. Emeka charmed her and impregnated her before she barely left her teens. He was already a star and could have married any woman of his choice, but he preferred a young naive 18 year old fair girl barely out of secondary school. The relationship was based on last and not love. The lady was needed a provider while Emeka need a subordinate who he could control. That's a disaster waiting to happen.

Anyway, It was Emeka who claimed to have moved on, that reopened the old wounds by his various media interview to promote his new film.

Gainman:
are u a man? Let me ask. If u are a man pray u dont hv issue with a woman. And if u are not, u will understand better if this happens to your son or brother.

What issue will you have with your woman that will make you to constantly physically abuse her?

gassbee:
Who do we believe Emeka or the wife, Emeka says he never beat her, the eife says he has been violent towards her

Because Emeka's wife has proves and witnesses, and her story is detailed. She mentioned names, places and dates. Emeka own story does not add up. All he is alleging was that the wife ganged up on him with others to blackmail him. He alleged the wife closed his school and sold 80% of his properties when he was away in the US for few weeks. His story doesn't add up.

Besides their children that was in his custody in the childhood confirm that he was physically violent and they take their monthers side.

jakeroberto:
Christianity is and was never moulded on Paul......Christianity is being Christ-like l.

That's what you choose to believe.
Jesus never told his disciples he was God to be worshipped, that was Paul.

Jesus never created any hierarchy in his organization, he sat on the floor together with his disciples, he never sat on a high chair. He did not create Bishops, elders, pastors. He said you can talk to God directly and don't need to talk to God through bishops, popes, pastors, etc.
He eat from the same table with his followers. He never personally owned any property. He never denigrated women, he did not see them as inferior.

All these I mentioned above were introduced by Paul and not Jesus.

obonujoker:
How can someone who created Man and gave him everything be wrathful and vengeful??

Just because you created something is not justification to be wrathful and vengeful, particularly for egocentric reasons. I gave birth to children ( which I created in a sense). If I decide to be wrathful and vengeful and every disobedience the commit, I would have killed them long ago.
That's why I said I like the character of Jesus, he was a pacifist and never wrathful or vengeful, that character belongs to Yahweh and Allah.

God is not wrath with man. God is wrath with the devil and his fallen angels who fell from glory.. however if a man/woman decides to follow the antecedents of the devil, then he/she falls under the wrath of God

God is wrath with the devil, but instead of him to take his personal beef with the devil, he decides to take it on man, who was not even involved with their beef to start with.

Your God is just to wrathful for someone like me. I am not a wrathful person. Anyone with negative emotions, I avoid.

obonujoker:
Yeah..


And we celebrate Jesus everyday in our lives room thence especially as He saved many of us from the wrath of God and made us more than conquerors again

Why is your God so wrathful or vengeful?

Mosba:
Only God knows the truth but the story surrounding the birth of Jesus has no place in my Biology textbook.

The only human ever with only 23 chromosomes, where he got the Y chromosome to became male the most interest part of the miracle.

BenevolentD:
Christmas just like most parts of today's Christianity were the invention of Roman Pagans under the King Constantine who was not himself a Christian, in the year 325 CE. Jesus is a Greek name which Yeshua was never known with in his time. Not to mention that St. Paul has not met with him. Today's Bible will easily win the Guiness world record of book of contradictions with thousands of contradictions. The brutal truth is that today's Christianity and today's Bible cannot stand scrutiny. It's sad.

Even though I am a atheist - more agnostic, I like the character of Jesus. He is a humanist, a pacifist and socialist, quite the opposite of the character of Paul, on who Christianity is modeled on. Christianity in fact should be called paulinity as it projects the views of Paul and not Jesus.

Christianity is a mixture of Paul's views, ancient Roman Paganism and Roman political structure.

sirpharrell:
No qualms. Sorry for my own harsh words too.
We can argue and learn from one another.
From you, I have learnt that the letter of defection is not absolute even though I maintain that it is still the most satisfactory evidence of defection.
The two majors things I have posited are:
1. The member losing his seat is never done automatically as the constitution prescribes a process to be followed which you yourself have outlined here
2. There is need to amend those provisions so that we can make it more water tight and reduce this indiscriminate jumping from one party to the other.

I appreciate you and my friend Deepsight, you guys are offering an invaluable service by taking your valuable time to attempt to enlighten Nigerians. Yes, sometimes emotions get the better of us and results in some harsh and unsavory comments, but I am glad ir never degenerates into insults and verbal violence.

Having said that, I believe the problem is not the law. Agreed our constitution is very faulty, but the good, clear and unambiguous aspects are not obeyed, they are abused by those that wield power. The problems are Nigerians, who believe in "might is right" philosophy. Once you wield power, that gives you the privilege of being above the law. Dont you find it strange that an election conducted by INEC would overturned and declared fraudulent, and no one, not one INEC official would be prosecuted. That means the election was rigged by ghosts.

No law is perfect, afterall the British operates an unwritten constitution, it is sincerity on the part of the operators and the people that gives validity and respect to laws.

DeepSight:
The court has been approached and it has declared those seats vacant. This decision stands until overturnd by a higher court.

Nigerians are just too insincere. They don't believe in such things as honour, dignify and doing things right. They only believe in manipulating the system for greed and personal gain. No country can survive with such hobbesian value system.

The case would take years to snake all the way to the supreme court. By then the matter would have become irrelevant.

Kukutente23:
You're the confused and uncoordinated one. The process in the constitution uses the word "shall" which is a mandatory word. It does not say the process is at the whim of the speaker of the House.
The case of YPP you're claiming. I hope you're aware he has only announced his defection on the pages of newspaper. If he announces it on the floor of the House, then the speaker MUST declare his seat vacant. Anything else is an illegality. You're allowed to claim whatever outside but once you do it on the floor, your seat becomes automatically vacant. If the speaker does not declare it so, he's violating the law and YPP can seek redress for that violation in court.
Your problem like most govt defenders is an inability to know the difference between right and wrong in the face of the law simply because of your political inclination.
It's pitiable

What party is Senator Uba today?

sirpharrell:
See how ignorant you are, yet you don't want to cool down and learn.
Senator Ifeanyi Ubah was elected under YPP, not Labour Party.
He has already written a letter to the Senate President which was read in plenary.
Take note of the process. He wrote a letter to the Senate President and the Senate President read the letter in plenary. I hope you understand what plenary means sha.
The Senate President has not yet declared his seat vacant.
Now, if YPP feel aggrieved, they will approach the high court to state that there is no division in their party to warrant the defection.
Normally, the case will get up to the Supreme Court and YPP will most likely win.
That is how it works. No legislator loses his seat AUTOMATICALLY whether the case is controversial or not.

My apologies. I am not a fan of Senator Uba, so I didn't know political party.

You are still confirming the insincerity of the whole Nigerian system and its people. Obviously, Senator Uba is manipulating the system by defecting and still remaining in his seat, against the tenets of the Nigerian constitution. Defecting to the ruling party in power, and the Senate president being his friend, he know that his seat would never be declared vacant by Senator Akpabio. He is also aware that litigating the case all the way to the supreme court will take years if not decades. In normal climes, the case would not get to the supreme court, because the supreme court had made pronouncements (severally) on the subject matter. But this is nigeria, by the time the supreme court make a pronouncement again, the tenor would have been over, and the matter irrelevant.

sirpharrell:
The law is not about emotions.
The only evidence known to the law that a legislator has defected is the letter written by that legislator to the speaker.
Irrespective of any other thing, the only document a speaker can use to declare a seat vacant is the letter of defection written by that member to the speaker.
It's just like when you have been declared the winner of an election into a Constituency, you can not be sworn in until you present the certificate of return.
Even though the whole world knows that you have been declared winner, you can not be sworn in by the clerk unless you present your certificate of return.
Likewise, even though the whole world knows that you have defected, the speaker can not act until he receives a letter from you that you have defected.
I don't know how this is difficult to understand.

That's why I said Nigerians are very insincere people. Even our constitution reflect that insincerity. Of what use is the law, if a person defects by declaration on the floor of the legislative chambers, announce publicly that he/she has defected, received by the new party publicly and obtaining a membership card and begin attending the meeting of the new party, but fails to transmit a letter to the speaker? That means the person has effectively defected while still holding unto his seat.

sirpharrell:
Your problem is lack of comprehension or maybe education. I repeat, for those legislators to lose their seats, the process of declaration of vacancy as enshrined in the construction will have to be followed. They have not lost their seats yet merely because they have defected. Otherwise, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah should have lost his seat too. I am sorry I can not break it down any further fir you. I have tried.

That's why i accuse you guys of insincerity.
According to the law Senator Uba Has lost his seat. You are insinuating that unless Senator Uba writes a letter and takes other actions, he can continue on the seat indefinitely, even if he becomes a card carrying member of APC. So to you all Senator Uba has to do to have his cake and eat it at the same time is not to transmit a letter to the speaker of the house. If so then the law is useless.
Senator Uba's case has gone under the radar, because it was not as controversial as the one of the 27 law makers. Labour Party is yet to complain and make a case of it. The matter is not even in court yet, unlike the 27 law makers.

sirpharrell:
You are even reinforcing what I said. The Supreme Court declared the seats vacant after the speaker refused. Which means it is not AUTOMATIC. There is a process which takes time. Do you know how long it will take for the matter to go from the High Court to the Supreme Court? Most times, the tenure is even expired before the Supreme Court declares the seat vacant. Get this into your head, I have not said that they shouldn't vacate their seats but it is not AUTOMATIC as some lawyers are deceiving ignorant people like you.

This is the problem with Nigerians - insincerity. Laws are rendered ineffective using technicalities and delay tactics. The law on defections was put there to ensure legislators dont take mandate given to one party to another party. Since the constitution recognises that votes belongs to the party and not necessarily to the individual, a party's mandate should belong to the party. The supreme court has always held this position. Now, the 27 legislators have announced on the floor if the assembly thar they have defected, they have been welcomed on live TV to their new party, they have said with their own mouths that there is no going back, and you using technicalities to defend them talking about "AUTOMATIC". OK, what party are the 27 law makers as of today according to you? Are they in PDP, APC or independent? Do you think they can continue to legislate without resolving this issue?

Wike and Tinubu has incurred the wrath of the people of Rivers State, Both elders and youth have come out enmass to condemn Tinubu's handling of the conflict (handing executive powers to wike by making him appoint commissioners controlling the legislative).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE5zkOYBMvg?si=n0TSf1DPjyEkt3Ry
Tinubu has exasperated the situation. The people of Rivers would not allow the 27 legislators remain in their seats, while being defectors from PDP and the 4 legislators loyal to the governor cannot perform the duties of the legislative. This jeans Fubara will continue governing without commisioners until the situation is resolved.

Maybe Tinubu will declare a state of emergency as he and his people has been threatening all along and bring in the military. This will exasperate the problem to a whole new level.

theamazonguru:
And part of the script is to demolish a state infrastructure - the state house of assembly.

To know this,you must be a member of the inner caucus.
Weldone sir.

As sad as it is, that's Nigerian politics. Fubara was fighting for his political survival. He needed time to respond to a sudden attack by Wike. He demolished the state House of Assembly to buy time. To rebuild the House of Assembly complex will not be a big deal for a rich state like Rivers. Two or three months of the N4 billion unilaterally removed by Wike from the monthly N10 billion internally generated revenue would be enough to rebuild the complex.

Please note: I do not support the destruction of the Assembly complex by Fubara. In a sane country, that action alone is enough for impeachment and prosecution, but then in a sane country, a so called Godfather and the president cannot conspire to undermine the authority of a sitting governor

coputa:
This government is never proactive.

Proactive ke? Dat one na grammar. Tinubu just announce whatever he thinks in his mind, and his ministers, aids and supporters (including the N30k gang) scramble to look to excuses and justification for the announcement. The use of the word policy is a misnomer. Policy connotes some degree of planning and preparation.

Even after the fuel subsidy announcements, NNPC is still selling Petrol at less than international price (in dollar terms), meaning Nigerians are still paying subsidy on Petrol. The only difference now is that there is no budgetary provisions for it and the amount is hidden.

SoNature:
Oga, stop defending everything indefensible.
These transport companies make lots of money at this time of the year because there's pressure on them.

The FG should have deposited some money with them or have their team refund the passengers 50% of their fares in real time.

Don't tell these companies that they will get their money next year. This is their peak season. They didn't beg the federal government to use their companies for any subsidy palliatives.

Anyways, I just want to believe that this news report is FALSE because GIGM has updated their website, indicating that the FG is refunding 50% of fares.

Deposit ke! in obodo Nigeria. It seems you have not done business in Nigeria before. In normal private transactions once you fail to collect your full cash on transaction, you will never see your money again, not to talk of government.

Me, I collect 100% before supplying any good or service. I don't have power to be begging anyone for my money.

Gboom:
So, if you were in power, will you pay the transport companies upfront without proper records that can be verified?

So if you are a transporter, will you carry passengers upfront without collecting collecting your cash at the park, but expect payment days or even weeks after the journey?

nairalanda1:
It is because you have not lived in a situation where oil prices have really really crashed...like in the 1980's for example.

Few months after Buhari took over in 2015, oil prices crashed to almost $30.

egbetokuns:
You’re 100% on Point. Fubara became their governor overnight. It’s serious.

The same way Tinubu won Rivers State overnight.

BondRiv:
Confused fellow.

There was no coercion and this is straight from the spokesperson of the Rivers State government who is the Commissioner of Information and Communication but you prefer lies and foolish theories.

Ignorance is bliss.

Shebi we will all be alive tomorrow and the coming days, we will all be witnesses to the implementation and workability of this "agreement".

daveP:
Now can the African members get sense and do something smart? Or they still dragging feet?

Why does African countries have to export crude which price they have no control over? Why not export petrol, diesel, kerosene, aviation fuel, paraffin, fertiliser, etc instead? Items you can determine the price you want to sell.

BondRiv:
So where is the conflict? Comprehension seems to be your problem.

The president's spokesman is only speaking of what the president was ready to do, if there was a failure to reach an agreement. Basically a fallback plan and does not mean there was any coercion.

But that is no longer necessary as an agreement has been reached. The implementation of which is in progress.

Do you still want a translation in your native language? This is English language.

Keep fooling yourself. The so called agreement apart from being null and void is not implementable. If Fubara does not follow up on the agreement, what can Tinubu and Wike do? Impeach the governor? Then we are back where we started - perambulator as fela would say.
Fubara had to sign (under duress) no to seem to be disrespectful or confrontational to the president, he knew the agreement was not worth the paper it was written on.

This is an eye witness account of the directive (not agreement of President Tinubu.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_pvVjGRBIg?si=QlUQD84xvnL86q7Q

BondRiv:
There is no variance. The resolutions were reached.

This is the variance (assuming you know what variance means);


The Commissioner of Information and Communication in Rivers State was in the meeting with the president and has spoken on this issue. He has stated that there was no coercion and that the resolutions will be implemented.

And
Mr President, was fully ready and equipped to take a very hard action if this resolution was not reached. - Ajuri Ngelale

BondRiv:
Keep crying.

Na you eyes I borrow to cry, or I beg you for water for the cry?
Why e con de pain you like this?

BondRiv:
You know what the Riv in my username stands for?

This why people like you who lack information about a subject should not comment on it.

The Commissioner of Information and Communication in Rivers State was in the meeting with the president and has spoken on this issue. He has stated that there was no coercion and that the resolutions will be implemented.

Now you are informed.

But this is at variance with the submissions of Ajuri Ngelale;

If he sees that peace is breaking down in any part of the country, this is a President that will take action. But nobody should be mistaken, His Excellency, Mr President, was fully ready and equipped to take a very hard action if this resolution was not reached.