RESIGNATION HITS RIVERS GOVT AS FOUR WIKE LOYALISTS QUIT FUBARA’S CABINET
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Governor Siminalayi Fubara of the Rivers State Government is facing a new wave of resignations as four commissioners who support Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, have quit from the governor’s cabinet.
The Ministry of Education’s Chinedu Mmom, the Ministry of Housing’s Gift Worlu, and the Ministry of Transport’s Jacobson Nbina have resigned.
With the words “there is no room for progressional development in the work place,” Inime Aguma also tendered her resignation as Commissioner of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation.
Nbina cited the state’s “unresolved political crisis” as his primary reason for leaving, while Mmom and Worlu claimed a poisonous work environment.
The four persons were among the commissioners who first resigned from the governor’s cabinet last December in the wake of the political crisis in the state but were readmitted into Fubara’s cabinet following President Bola Tinubu’s intervention.
Earlier, three commissioners, Zacchaeus Adangor, Emeka Woke and Alabo George-Kelly also resigned from the Ministries of Justice, Special Projects and Works respectively.
Governor Fubara recently announced a plan by his administration to set up a panel of inquiry to probe the governance of the state under the Wike administration.
The governor accused his opponents of deliberately sabotaging his administration while he was hoping that the issue in the state would be resolved amicably.
The move was the latest twist in the political crisis rocking the oil-rich state. The development has seen a deepening of the feud between Fubara and the state House of Assembly.
Last week, lawmakers loyal to the governor elected a new speaker. Fubara had also issued an executive order relocating the sitting venue of the Rivers State House of Assembly to the Government House, citing safety concerns.
The feud is due to the fallout between Fubara and his predecessor and current Minister of the FCT Nyesom Wike. President Tinubu had waded into the crisis last year but the imbroglio appears to be far from over.
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