The founder of TAF Africa, Jake Epelle, has described the ongoing political situation in Rivers State as disgraceful.
Epelle made this statement on Tuesday when he appeared as a guest in an interview on The Morning Brief, a programme on Channels Television monitored by DAILY POST.
DAILY POST recalls that the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Martin Amaewhule, alongside 15 other lawmakers, last week defected from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Similarly, barely three months after peace was brokered between the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, and his political son, Governor Siminalayi Fubara, political actors in Rivers State are gearing up for another crisis.
Reacting, Epelle said: “For lack of a better word, this is disgraceful. This is political meandering. This is an absolute aberration of democracy. But beyond that, we are seeing the signal of crisis brewing again.
“They have made nonsense of the Supreme Court judgment that says they didn’t defect, and sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you can hide the truth, but you cannot cover the truth forever.
“It is playing out the kind of dirty politics that these individuals are playing, and unfortunately, it is the common people that are going to suffer it. We are seeing another set of trouble beginning to raise its ugly head, and I think the President must step in now, because there will be no other state of emergency. We’ve had too much of this nonsense, and it cannot continue that way.”