PDP Activist Faults Resolution Of Rivers Crisis, Vows Court Action

 A member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and youth activist, Dr Tom FredFish, has condemned the resolutions reached in the feud between Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State, and his estranged godfather, and minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, describing the truce as a “desecration of the Nigerian constitution.” 

 Speaking in an interview with LEADERSHIP Friday in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, FredFish, described the whole process leading to the resolution as a coup against the constitution, given the fact that a new speaker had emerged constitutionally, wondering why he should be replaced unconstitutionally even with a pending court case on the matter.

 FredFish, noted that although the list of conditions for peace which Governor Fubara and others signed in a document is a flagrant violation of Mr. Fubara’s liberty as a sitting Governor, he is “particularly interested in one of the resolutions which suggested that the leadership of the Rivers State House of Assembly led by former Speaker Hon. Martins Amaewhule, be recognized and returned as Speaker, alongside with his 26 APC defectors and co – travelers.” 

The youth activist who had instituted a 100 million Naira lawsuit against TELL magazine, for allegedly denigrating the office of then Akwa Ibom State Governor Godswill Akpabio, in 2010, and the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) for unnecessarily hiking fuel prices in 2017, described the proposed return of the former Speaker as an “intimidating slap to the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, considering its order in suit marked PHC/3030/CS/2023, where the Court restrained Hon. Martin Amaewhule and Rt. Hon. Dumle Maol from parading themselves as Speaker and Deputy Speaker respectively of the RSHA.”

He said: “As far as the laws of the land and the rule of law are concerned, no individual or group of persons can act outside the confines of the constitution or disobey the courts because of a sitting room arrangement by party chieftains to satisfy their political capital. It is illegal, unconstitutional, criminal, foul, and cannot stand.

“If they want to be returned as speaker and deputy speaker of the House, they ought to return to the Court and give reasons why the court should return them to the House and not attempt to go back to the office through a back door.