Former Agriculture Minister, Audu Ogbeh has warned that bringing a former service chief to replace an elected governor is sending a wrong signal that Nigerians still desire military rule.
Ogbe said this in an interview on ‘Politics Today', a Channels Television programme on Sunday.
According to him, it is unfair for the president to suspend Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State and retain the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, who are both actors in the political crisis.
Ogbe, an ex-National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said emergency rule should be avoided at all cost, stressing that it is dangerous and would not be fair.
The former Agriculture Minister said the decision of the president should not overrule that of the people who voted the governor.
He said that there would have been a reconcilation committee to address and iron matters of such out.
“I think that the use or declaration of states of emergency is something that we should avoid as much as possible. It’s a very dangerous trend because it is definitely not going to be always fair and just.
“I must say that the decision of the President should not overrule the vote of the people who made that individual governor. The people of Rivers voted for somebody.
“I suggest that a reconciliation committee should be set up as soon as possible. And that in the future, when such a situation arises, these individuals who are the warring factions should be brought before senior citizens of the state and told the plain truth,” he said.
