Tony Okocha
The Rivers State faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has lambasted the Tony Okocha-led All Progressives Congress, APC, over calls for Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s resignation or impeachment.
Okocha, in a press conference on Monday, March 10 issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the governor to either resign or face impeachment.
Okocha accused the governor of mismanaging the state and alleged that Fubara’s administration had plunged the state into chaos.
He claimed that the Supreme Court, in its verdict, indicated that there is no functional government in Rivers State, citing multiple infractions by the governor, which he described as impeachable offenses.
Responding, PDP’s Publicity Secretary in Rivers State, Sydney Tambari Gbara, dismissed the ultimatum, saying Okocha is irrelevant.
According to him, Okocha issued the 48-hour ultimatum “without giving any cogent reasons”, for the governor to resign or be impeached.
Gbara asserted that Okocha “is a character that has been known in Rivers State political scene as a man who speaks from both sides of his mouth, makes derogatory or illogical utterances that are not always in line with current reality”.
The PDP claimed that nobody in Rivers State takes Tony Okocha’s “comment seriously anymore because of his past antecedents. He is irrelevant.”
“So therefore, this 48 hour ultimatum is obviously laughable and it is degrading our political landscape in Rivers State, bringing our state down as if we are mediocre and unserious people”.
Gbara, who accused Okocha of “trying to impress his pay master”, urged Nigerians, particularly Rivers people, to disregard the ultimatum.
“Governor Fubara is on top of the situation in Rivers State and he is busy commissioning projects. He has no time to listen to characters like Tony Okocha”
