FAAC allocation: S’Court ruling, plot to secure Rivers for APC — Timi Frank

Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade Timi Frank, on Sunday, condemned the Supreme Court judgement that ordered the withdrawal of monthly allocations to local governments in Rivers State.

Frank, who rejected the judgment and described it as criminal usurpation of allocation rightly belonging to Rivers people, called on Nigerians and members of the international community to hold President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, responsible for any breach of peace and anarchy that may arise from the people’s anger over the gross miscarriage of justice.

Frank, who made these assertions in a statement in Abuja, said: “From the illegal judgment which came out from the Supreme Court against the Rivers State Government, the whole world knows that this is the most fraudulent judgement ever delivered in the history of Nigeria. 

“How can the Supreme Court give this kind of anti-truth, anti-God, inhuman, anti-justice, and compromised judgement that is obviously meant to give the opposition APC the leeway to take over Rivers State?”

The political activist, who is also the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) Ambassador to East Africa and the Middle East, added:

“We make bold to say that everybody knows that the suspended 27 lawmakers from River State illegally defected from PDP to APC, and despite this kangaroo judgement, they are no more members of the Rivers State House of Assembly. 

“By giving order to withhold the local government allocation to Rivers State is to weaken and undermine the Siminalayi Fubara’s administration and using the order of court to starve the people of Rivers State that voted Fubara to power.”

He lamented that despite the judicial overreach and attempt to foist illegality in Rivers State, “President Tinubu sees nothing wrong with the affront on democracy in Rivers and by extension, Nigeria, despite purportedly claiming to be a defender of democracy.”

He accused the present administration, led by Tinubu, of plotting to take over Rivers State at all costs by empowering the illegitimate and suspended lawmakers through the courts to impeach Fubara.

He, however, urged the Rivers people not to give up the struggle but to stand strong and mobilise necessary support for Fubara, who is fighting to save Rivers’ common wealth and defend the nation’s constitution.

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