Wike, others planning extend Rivers six months emergency rule – Suspended Commissioner, Gbali

The suspended Commissioner for Youth Development in Rivers State, Chisom Gbali, on Monday accused the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike and his cohorts of plans to extend the state of emergency in the state.

Gbali said Wike and his cohorts are planning to create problems that would lead to President Bola Tinubu extending the state of emergency in the state.

The president had declared a state of emergency in Rivers State and suspended Governor Sim Fubara following intelligence report of militants planning to attack oil installations.

Tinubu also suspended Fubara for six months while appointing a sole administrator to preside over the state.

His pronouncement was due to the face-off between Wike and Fubara that affected the state House of Assembly but the Supreme Court had intervened recently.

However, appearing on Arise TV's Morning Show, Gbali said the body language of the Sole The Administrator suggest a calculated effort to extend the situation beyond six months.

According to Gbali: “We are in the same wave length, that's actually the calculated attempt I was talking about. There is a plan to extend it and even incite problem before the end of these six months, they want to incite problem that would make the president make another pronouncement.

” And of course you know that if there is any extension whatsoever, it calls for the end of the administration, so if you see the school of thoughts in politics that they call body language, if you see the body language you will know that this is a calculated attempt.

“They are setting aside all the subsisting projects, suspending boards and parastatals but for someone that was sent to restore peace, till now all we are seeing is different.

“They even planned to install a sole administrator at the local government level. these are there calculated attempts.

“The current minister of the FCT and his cohorts, the assembly members, former chairmen whose tenure elapsed, that's the people i'm talking about, we know them. The issue of Rivers State is between the former governor and the current governor.

“All these things are geared towards 2027 and we are dazzled that his excellency will be meddling in this kind of matter when there are so many areas that have more pressing needs, people are dying everyday and there is no state of emergency but in Rivers where we never had hurt they did.”