LABOUR PARTY DEMANDS PROBE OF 6-MONTHS EMERGENCY RULE

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The Labour Party (LP) has called for an immediate investigation into the six-month state of emergency in Rivers State.

The Interim National Publicity Secretary of the party, Tony Akeni, articulated the party’s stance on the emergency rule in Rivers State during a statement in Abuja late on Monday.

Akeni accused, among other allegations, that the Rivers State Sole Administrator, Admiral Ibom-Eke Ibas, merely followed the directives of President Bola Tinubu and his political associate, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Chief Nyesom Wike, to access the state’s treasury and seize control of the political framework.

He said, “There are two designs by President Tinubu and his favourite South-South sidekick, Wike, in the coup and siege against democracy in Rivers state. The political and the economic designs.

“To assess Sole Administrator Admiral Ibok-Eke Ibas’s performance during the period, his only achievement is that he did a good job standing in for his adopted new masters, Tinubu and Wike.

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“In both plots, Tinubu and Wike fully succeeded. The only plot left they don’t know about is that they do not own tomorrow.

“Yes, they don’t. In 2027, Tinubu and Wike may wake up to find that it is God and Rivers State’s 7.2 million reborn citizens who actually own and will determine their destiny in 2027.

“Not the two clay emperors riding roughshod over their governor, Simi Fubara, and their treasury today.”