Tinubu must not condone Fubara’s lawlessness in Rivers — Reps member

A member of the House of Representatives, Honourable Solomon Bob, called President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday to remove any protective cover for Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State and allow the law to take its course on the governance and management of the state’s resources.

Honourable Bob, in a statement made available to Parliamentary Correspondents in Abuja, averred that Governor Fubara had committed several impeachable constitutional breaches and disrespected the President not to warrant further tolerance of his acts of lawlessness.

“Governor Fubara has no respect for President Tinubu. I can tell you that. Forget about his public posturing; he only fears him. That’s all. If he could thumb his nose at the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), His Excellency, Dr Nyesom Wike, who brought him out of nothing, imagine what he would do to Tinubu.

“He begged for the December settlement brokered by the President. He benefited more than anyone else from it. In fact, he’s the only beneficiary. But see how he has trashed it. He paid people to challenge that settlement in court, including the so-called Rivers elders.

“The only term of the agreement he pretended to honour was the reappointment of commissioners who resigned, but he made them effectively redundant to the point where they had to resign again. He finally came out recently to denounce the settlement as unconstitutional.”

Hon. Bob further stated that Governor Fubara’s outrageous lawlessness and assault on the constitution require that he face the consequences of his actions, and that the President would be failing to live up to his oath of office to be seen to be condoning Fubara’s unprecedented lawless behaviour.

“President Tinubu must not appear like an enabler of impunity and egregious unlawful behaviour. Governor Fubara destroyed an entire branch of the government to the rubble. He is running a government without a budget and spending Rivers people’s money recklessly.

“He has illegally withheld funds due to local governments, and our people are running on empty. The House of Assembly, which has the constitutional responsibility to take necessary measures against the governor, must not be fettered.

“At the moment, that’s the impression I get. I listened to the president’s media aide the other day, and I was disappointed.

“His statement is preposterous. If you do nothing in the face of gross lawlessness and constitutional abuse such as Fubara is displaying in Rivers State, that’s not neutrality; that’s siding with impunity, lawlessness, and tyranny.”

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