The statement said: “Let us call a spade a spade: What is happening in Rivers State is not normal. What is normal in five members of a 32-strong house seeking to remove the Speaker supported by the remaining members? What is normal in the Police Commissioner of a state labelling the state’s Governor a dictator and supporting renegade lawmakers to stir trouble? What is normal in hired thugs stoning visiting Governors from another part of the country?
Browsing: Rivers crisis
He stated that the actions of the lawmakers are unpatriotic and called on the appropriate authorities to sanction all those found culpable accordingly to the law
The party wondered why the Rivers State Police Commissioner, Mbu Joseph Mbu, who provided cover for the five renegade lawmakers to attack the House while failing to provide security for
the House to sit, and the leader of the renegade lawmakers, Evans Bipi, who allegedly started the crisis in the House by punching Lloyd and the Speaker of the House on the face, were not invited along with the others
Abati, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, in Beijing, China on Thursday
“Let us reduce power at the centre and then dissolve some of the responsibilities down to the federating unit and to the local government
The statement said Mbu even before now had show bias in the handling of issues relating to the state Governor, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi
He said that the crisis had taken a destructive dimension, adding that the fracas was an indication that the current CP in Rivers State, Joseph Mbu, was no longer able to control the situation