Former PDP National Legal Adviser Mark Jacob has stated that while the actions of suspended Rivers State Governor Sim Fubara and Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike following their meeting with President Bola Tinubu may indicate a reconciliation, it is anti-democratic to suspend elected officials.
According to reports, Tinubu met at the Presidential Villa in Abuja late Thursday with Fubara, Wike, and suspended Rivers Assembly members.
Following a contentious political crisis in the oil-producing state, Tinubu suspended Fubara, his deputy Ngozi Odu, and members of the Rivers Assembly three months before to the meeting.
Following the meeting, Wike, Fubara, and the legislators who had been suspended were all grinning broadly.
They have settled their disagreements and decided to “work together with the governor, and the governor has also agreed to work with all of us,” Wike told reporters.
We belong to the same political family,” he continued. “Yes, we all have issues like everyone else, but you also have time to work them out, and that was eventually resolved today. We are here to inform Mr. President that we have reached an agreement on this.
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In a Friday interview with Channels Television’s The Morning Brief, the former PDP legal adviser asserted that the reconciliation does not alter the reality that an aberration took place in Rivers State.
Jacob added that he won’t be shocked if Fubara joins the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), citing recent defections to the party.
He stated, “I won’t be surprised if Siminalayi agrees if they offer him a carrot and tell him to come over to APC so that he can reclaim his seat, because it’s all about me.” What am I going to get?
The fact that they are grinning and shaking their hands doesn’t alter the reality that River State is subject to an illegality; this is an anomaly that shouldn’t have occurred in the first place.
Therefore, it’s awful that it ever happened, but to me, it’s still drama. We’ll see what happens in the coming days.
“A democratically elected president should never be in a position to subvert democracy. Especially in Nigeria, that shouldn’t occur.
