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The National President of Ijaw Peoples Development Initiative, IPDI, Comrade Austin Ozobo has said there is nothing worth celebrating in the return and resumption of Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara.
“Actually we are not celebrating it; there is nothing new to be celebrated,” Ozobo said in an interview with newsmen in Warri.
He said the governor’s suspension by President Bola Tinubu was “illegal, undemocratic and unconstitutional”.
“As a civilian president, he (Tinubu) does not have the constitutional right to suspend a democratic elected governor.
“We are just advising Mr. President to stop all this lawlessness because what he has done could set a bad precedence and it could cause tension if not for the fact that the youths of that state were able to calm themselves down.
“It is a bad precedence he has set and we are advising him to desist from such in the future because his actions are barbaric and unlawful,” Ozobo added.
Rivers State has been under emergency rule ordered by President Tinubu over a political dispute between Fubara and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike.
Rivers: Nothing to celebrate in Fubara’s return – Ijaw group declares
