Two of the twenty-seven members of the Rivers State House of Assembly have joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after recently defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Debo Ologunagba, the PDP’s national publicity secretary, verified this news in an interview with Arise TV.
He said the legislators who are impacted have realised their endeavour is pointless. He continued by saying that they now view their previous defection as a regrettable and misguided political decision.
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The PDP spokesperson further emphasised that, in accordance with section 109, paragraph 1g of the constitution, the seats of those who defected are now empty.
The federal government has responded to the accusation made against President Bola Tinubu over the current political turmoil in Rivers State by Asari Dokubo, a former militant leader from the Niger Delta.
The administration claimed to have noted Dokubo’s remarks and to have interpreted them as just advising.
According to Anadeoonline.ng, Dokubo voiced his displeasure with President Tinubu’s handling of the political conflict in Rivers State in a video posted on his Facebook page.
Dokubo questioned why President Tinubu had not intervened to settle the dispute between Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara and Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike.
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The former militant commander, who thought of President Tinubu as a friend, feels that the latter ought to have intervened more to restrict Wike’s conduct in particular and handle the problem more actively.
Speaking to reporters shortly after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting in Abuja on Wednesday, Mohammed Idris, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, responded to Dokubo’s proposal by stating that the accusation made by the former militant leader is merely advisory.
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