By Joyce Remi-Babayeju
Senior Special Assistant, SSA, on Public Communication and New Media to the FCT Minister, Lere Olayinka has said that Governor Sim Fubara should be blamed for his lawlessness causing the crisis rocking t Rivers State.
Olayinka cautioned, Afenifere Chieftain, Dr. Femi Okurounmu, an Afenifere Chieftain for medaling into matters which he he cannot speak on objectively.
Olayinka therefore counseled Okurounmu to avoid getting involved in matters which is capable of ridiculing his status as an elder statesman.
Olayinka reacted to Dr. Okurounmu’s statement, accusing President Bola Tinubu of being laid-back on the ongoing crisis in Rivers State, asked “what exactly Dr Okurounmu expected President Tinubu to have done.”
The SSA to Wike expressed shock at the strange manner which Dr. Okurounmu, a former Senator could opt to be playing ostrich to the avalanche of disobedience to court judgements by the Governor of Rivers State, Sim Fubara, and the danger such affront on the judiciary posed to democracy and peace in the country.
Okurounmu had accused the FCT Minister of being the architect and mastermind of the Rivers crisis, responding.
Responding, Olayinka cautioned Okurounmu as an elder should be honest enough to stand before the mirror and ask himself the roles he played in Fubara becoming governor, insteading of assuming that Wike wanted Gov. Sim Fubara to his surrogate son and not function as the governor of Rivers State.
Olayinka stated, “In Yorubaland, when two children are fighting, what the elders do is to sit them down and listen to their sides of the conflict. Elders don’t just sit in their bedrooms and apportion blames as done by Baba Femi Okurounmu.”
Governor Fubara been ignoring judgements of the courts concerning his regime of lawlessness in Rivers State? When the Court of Appeal in Abuja on October 10, 2024, affirmed a lower court’s decision nullifying the Rivers State’s 2024 budget signed into law and being operated by Governor Fubara, did the governor obey the judgment.
“Was it Wike that went to the Rivers State House of Assembly Complex and set it on fire so as to prevent duly elected lawmakers from carrying out their duties”, Olayinka questioned.
