Activist lawyer Deji Adeyanju on Sunday charged Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State to resist the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike.
This was as Adeyanju urged Fubara to make Wike politically irrelevant in Rivers State by 2027.
Adeyanju made the call following the Supreme Court’s judgment that blocked federal allocations to Rivers State.
The Supreme Court had ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and the Accountant General of the Federation to stop allocating funds to the Rivers State government.
It stated that the ruling would remain in force until Fubara ceases all illegal, unlawful, and unconstitutional activities.
The apex court directed that funds would be released to Fubara’s government only when a lawful Appropriation Law is enacted under the Martin Amaewhule Speakership.
In the judgment delivered on Friday by Justice Emmanuel Akomaye Agim, the Supreme Court also ordered the 27 members of the Rivers House of Assembly to resume their functions immediately.
The face-off between Wike and Fubara led to 27 lawmakers defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Their defection resulted in the declaration of their seats as vacant, and Amaewhule was subsequently removed as Speaker under Fubara’s leadership.
A Speaker backed by Fubara, Oko Jombo, then emerged.
Reacting to the Supreme Court’s judgment, Wike said the ruling signified that all impunity in Rivers State must stop.
However, Adeyanju, in a Facebook post, wrote:
“I have not seen or read the Rivers judgment and as such cannot discuss or comment on what I have not read, but I want to urge Governor Fubara to resist Wike and also make him politically irrelevant in 2027.”
