Human rights activist, Jake Epelle, has slammed President Bola Tinubu and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, over claims of a strategic move to further destabilise Rivers State.
Naija News reports that the activist, while featuring on Arise Television’s Morning Show on Thursday, stated that Rivers State Governor, Sim Fubara, tolerated a lot of mess, berating those asking the Governor to apologise to Wike.
Epelle expressed his frustration with the ongoing political situation, demanding an end to what he described as rubbish.
He further questioned Wike and Tinubu’s ‘covenant’ that the president cannot call him to order.
Speaking on the appointment of local government chairmen, the activist likened the Rivers State Sole Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (rtd), to a “Sole Animator,’ stressing his actions were in violation of the mandate given to him.
He said, “Fubara took a lot of mess from all of them that I, Jake, will not take. How long can you disgrace a man, including your brothers and cronies? How long can an individual call a sitting governor ‘mumu,’ and how many people have told that local government chairman to go and beg Fubara? He came out and did a fake apology.
“Of all the things that Wike has said against Fubara, how many people have told him to go and apologize? I’m not saying there shouldn’t be room for peace.
“I think we have taken enough of this rubbish and we must stop. All the people concerned must stop. I don’t know what covenant Wike has with the president that he can’t call him to order, that’s the problem.
“I’m tempted to call this gentleman ‘Sole Animator’ because the whole thing looks animated. It looks like a drama.
“What’s the way forward? The National Assembly amended the president’s position (the proclamation); none of that amendment has been followed. Is the president not in disobedience of what the NASS did?
“That alone is a violation because we need to go back to what the National Assembly amended, set up eminent elders, people who are neutral, to start looking into these issues.
“Secondly, the administrator ought to report to the National Assembly. Tell me one meeting, apart from the concocted Wike-sided group that went to meet with him, and none of them allowed any neutral or those supporting Fubara to be part of the equation.
“We need to go back to what they stipulated, and we may get lasting peace. But this strategic move to further destabilize the state and ask for an extension of the state of emergency rule is unacceptable. It will be very unbecoming of this administration if it succumbs to the pressure of one man who is saying that the whole state will not sleep just because of his inordinate ambition.
“The way forward is simply let’s negotiate, engage, and the ultimate way forward is let’s restore the man that we all gave the mandate to lead us, and that is Fubara.”
