Rotimi Amaechi
Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Otelemaba Dan Amachree, has alleged that there are strong indications that the state Governor, Chibuike Amaechi, the legislators and some government officials have been penciled down for assassination.
He raise this in a petition he sent to President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday.
He said a near breakdown of law and order in the state was imminent over the raging crisis within the ruling Peoples Democratic Party,PDP.
According to him, since the party’s leadership led by G.U. Ake was sacked by the Abuja High Court on April 15, Rivers has been in a state of confusion.
“Your Excellency Sir, it is important to note that since this development, Rivers State is witnessing, with unending shock and awe, the creeping fashion of daylight illegality and disorder,” he said.
“As stakeholders in the Nigeria democratic project and legitimate representatives of our people as well as strong collaborators in your Excellency’s emergence as President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, we seek to use this medium to inundate you of the developments, their implications for Rivers State and Nigeria as a whole and pray your Presidential intervention.”
“In lieu of the oath of office as a legislature, let us reiterate our unwavering commitment and loyalty to the Constitution and people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, especially the people of Rivers State.”
“We have absolute, unshaken and unflinching confidence in you as President, Federal Republic of Nigeria and in the leadership of Rt. Hon Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi as the Executive Governor of Rivers State. We shall defend and promote the collective social contract vested in our mandate.”
Amachree further noted that the Assembly was alarmed and disturbed by the planned withdrawal of security personnel attached to various Rivers State Government establishments and officials, especially that of the Governor of Rivers State, Rt. Hon Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, the Rivers State House of Assembly, the ministries and the local government councils.
“A test run has been executed with the withdrawal of police from the Okirika Local Government Council by the State Commissioner of Police, Mr Mbu Joseph Mbu,” the statement adds.
Meanwhile, the police command has denied appealing the interim injunction of a Federal High Court, ordering the police to withdraw its men from the premises of the Obio/Akpor Local Government Council to enable the care taker committee conduct its daily routine.
Police Public Relations Officer,PPRO, Angela Agabe, told journalists at the police command headquarters on Tuesday that she was not aware of any appeal by the police against the court ruling.
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