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| SACKED 22 APC Chairmen |
Inspector General of Police, IGP Solomon Arase, has been tasked to
implement, without delay, the judgment of the National Industrial Court
reinstating the duly elected 22 Council Chairmen in Rivers State illegally
sacked by the State’s Care-Taker Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, based on a
controversial court judgment.
Challenging the IGP to do the right thing,
the Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) said
Tuesday in a statement signed by its Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya:
“We appeal to IGP Solomon Arase to immediately take action to reinstate the
illegally sacked LG Chairmen as ruled yesterday by the National Industrial
Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. We also urged IGP Arase to ensure
the arrest and prosecution of the misguided elements Wike constituted as
Care-Taker Committees to run the affairs of the Rivers State Councils and
stop them from executing Wike’s plot to use them as conduit pipes to
plunder and milk the treasury of Rivers state dry.”
Rivers APC in the statement issued in Port Harcourt noted that the
judiciary has once again proven that it is the last hope of the common man
by reinstating the illegally sacked Council Chairmen. “We commend and
congratulate the National Industrial Court for saving the judiciary from
the shame that Justice Akanbi nearly brought upon it by his strange
judgment that undermined the appeal before a Higher Court,” the party said.
It came down heavily on Wike, saying: “We have severally stated that Wike
has no place in a democratic dispensation as his records are an evil
reminder of undemocratic bad blood in a civilised society.
“Former Governor Chibuike Ameachi’s slogan ‘Truth Will Prevail’ has come to
play and very soon Wke will be caught up in his own traps. We thank God for
this judgment. Wike can bribe one judge but he cannot bribe all judges.
Truth has prevailed.
“With the sack of Wike’s illegal Council Chairmen, they have entered the
Hall of Shame as the shortest serving Local Government Chairmen ever in the
history of Nigeria as they were in office only for an aggregate period of
27 hours.”
Signed
Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze,
SSA on Media and Public Affairs to the State Chairman, APC Rivers State.
