A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Hycienth Ngwu has said that the declaration of emergency rule in Rivers State by President Bola Tinubu ‘‘is a very good intervention to forestall ill-wind for all Nigerians’’.
NewsBits recallst that President Tinubu, on Tuesday, declared an emergency rule on Rivers, thereby suspended the state governor, his deputy and the state 30 lawmakers for a period of six months. Tinubu’s intervention came after over one year of political crisis as well as recent human and economic security threats being heightened within the state.
Ngwu, who is the former South-East Publicity Secretary of the APC, told reporters on Wednesday in Enugu that President Tinubu in his right wisdom must have considered the strategic and economic importance of Rivers before arriving at the decision.
“I thank President Tinubu for coming to restore sanity and respect for constituted authority in Rivers State,” Ngwu added.
But many people wonder if, indeed, sanity has been restored in the oil-rich Rivers State when oil pipelines are being blown up purportedly by angry militants who, apparently, suspect that the Federal Government has intimidated and bullied the Government and people of the state with the declaration of emergency rule.
This Presidential timely and swift intervention deserves our standing ovation, according to him. He said: “Rivers State is one of the strategic states, economically in Nigeria. If the state was allowed to slide into full anarchy, it would have been an ill-wind for all Nigerians.
“This is a very good intervention. The state before the Presidential intervention was sliding into anarchy. The State House of Assembly complex was brazenly demolished and not rebuilt for several months. This is very unfortunate.
“The governor and the members of the House of Assembly who were all elected on the same day to provide good governance, secure lives and property of the residents of Rivers State became alienated to their elective roles.”
Ngwu said that the political logjam was gradually entering the judicial arm of government before the “thoughtful intervention”.
