The Sole Administrator of Rivers State, President, Admiral
Ibok-Ete Ibas, retd., has been challenged to explain recent appointments of
Local Government Sole administrators and others.
Atedo Peterside, President, ANAP Foundation and Founder,
IBTC Bank, cautioned that the sole administrator has no right to come all the
way from Cross River State to add fuel to fire already burning in Rivers State.
He accused Ibas of appointing riff raffs into offices of
honour in Rivers, challenging him to tell Nigerians how he made choice his of
appointments.
Peterside warned that Rivers people will not fold their
hands and watch someone from another state destroy their resouces and inflame
the situation.
He told Arise that the Sole Administrator either misread his
brief or has no understanding of his role, adding that instead of coming to an
inflamed situation to help achieve stability and healing, he might be
inadvertently adding fuel to the fire.
“You see, in every situation, I always believe in giving
people time to tell us who they are, what they’re about in effect, before you
rush to judgment.
“When this Sole administrator was appointed, please check
everywhere. I never made any comment about him, his competence, his integrity
or anything. So what has changed?
“What has changed is that I think the Sole administrator
either misread his brief or he has no understanding of what his role is.
“And instead of coming to an inflamed situation with a view
to helping to achieve stability and healing, he might be inadvertently adding
fuel to the fire.
“A given basis, he’s made some appointments. First of all,
he emerged in an irregular manner. I would say the executive were misguided. So
he’s a product of the executive being misguided legally, and then the
legislator will be introducing rascality to use a voice vote to confirm his
appointment.
“That, we all know, a voice vote does not make any sense. It
can never prove two thirds, because even in the house of Reps, we don’t even
know how many people were in the room. I saw the TV pictures.
“So here is the man who came in, knows he’s on shifty
ground, on shifty ground, and what has he done? You know, they say, make some
appointments, and I’ll tell you who you are. He’s made some appointments, even
the Rivers State Electoral Commission. He went in there, removed people, made
appointments. He then also went to all the LGs, appointed, Sole administrators.
“So, a man who himself probably has had no proper mandate in
a serious country with a serious legal system now decides to add insult upon
injury. Instead of simply leaving local governments in the hands of the most
senior, full-time staff and even reading them the riot act, to do the correct
thing, he now goes to superimpose people.
“I challenge him to tell the nation through what process he
chose those he appointed. Through what
process did he make the appointment? Did he advertise the positions? Did he
call for nominations? Did he search Rivers State for the most competent,
skilled persons of high integrity?
“Like I’ve already said, we know ourselves in Rivers State,
you make many appointments from the people you’ve chosen. I can tell you who
you are with due respect for the people he appointed, in my personal opinion,
they are riff raffs.
“So a man leaves Cross River State comes to Rivers State in
an inflamed situation. I challenge him to tell the nation what process he used
in making the appointments.
“Did he choose people that he knew personally when he was in
the Navy? Who did he ask for nominations? When did he produce some of these riff
raffs from?
“You’ve got an electoral commission, and you bring in some
people that you chose through the method that you can’t explain?
“Please, I challenge him to explain how he chose those
persons. So do you want us to accept the elections conducted by some of those
people that he chose when we don’t even know how they are mixed?
“And I think that is disrespectful to the people of River
State. He should be called to order immediately.
“There should be no mistake whatsoever that we will sit down
forever and accept persons being appointed to lord over our state and our
resources,” he said.
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It is rather better some of you talk to your brother, FCT minister. He alone has answers to your predicaments. Ibas is an opportunist, what do you expect from a greedy Nigerian?
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