IYC seeks clarity in Rivers endless political crisis

Rivers State is back to political crisis and another impeachment tablet has been tables seeking to remove Gov Sim Fubara, an Ijaw man. Now, Maobuye Nangi Obu, the Secretary-General of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide, has issued what looks like a searing critique of the current administration’s handling of the crisis.

Labeling the current situation “ongoing madness,” the IYC scribe issued an 8-point observation titled ‘Rivers State of Mind,’ warning that the lack of official communication is leaving supporters armed with nothing but social media gossip.

He examined the gaps along topics such as ‘propaganda gap’ gap caused by absence of any information official (chief press secretary nor commissioner of information); the ‘ghost of the agreement’ in the absence of an endorsed agreement other than what one party has claimed; and what he called a ‘fishy impeachment plot’ where the man prosecuting the plot may be plotting to be acting governor.

His suggestion is what that the Governor must activate a robust communication team and speak the “categorical truth.”

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Another citizen has submitted a public memo on the Rivers crisis, saying Nigerians can attest to the fact that ‘one man’ tries to change the game of politics in the state as a result of greed. Thus, Rivers State was sold to outsiders, allowing them to intrude into the state’s affairs. “The same greed led to the political warlord plotting to remove the governor with which resulted in his defection to the APC.”

He went on: “A minister is trying to make the State ungovernable by declaring war here and there. Is it President Bola Ahmed Tinubu that sent him?”

On his own, Mike Iwezor, a political commentator, said in politics, power is not lost only through defeat; sometimes, it is lost through miscalculation. “In Rivers State, Nyesom Wike appears to have walked straight into such an error and only now is he realizing the cost.

“Wike lost this political fight the moment he allowed his loyalists in the Rivers State House of Assembly to defect to the APC. At the time, it may have looked like a smart tactical move, weakening Gov Fubara within the PDP. But that move has since backfired spectacularly.

“What Wike likely did not anticipate was Fubara’s eventual move to the APC. Today, Fubara is effectively the number one APC member in Rivers State.”

He concluded thus: “Rivers politics has a long memory. Successors rarely remain loyal, and godfatherism often ends in betrayal. If Fubara repeats that pattern, history will not spare him. The system he benefits from today is the same one that could be used against him tomorrow. In Rivers State, the cycle is clear: those who impose eventually lose control.”

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