Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara has redeployed the State Commissioners for Finance and Justice as the political crisis rocking the State continues to linger on.
Governor Fubara in a statement on Tuesday redeployed the Commissioner for Justice and Attorney-General of the State, Prof. Zacchaeus Adangor to the Ministry of Special Duties (Governor’s Office).
The statement released by the Secretary to the Rivers State Government, Dr. Tammy Danagogo also disclosed that Fubara sent the Commissioner for Finance, Isaac Kamalu, to the Ministry of Employment Generation and Economic Empowerment.
The Governor asked them to immediately hand over to their respective permanent secretaries.
“They are to hand over to their respective permanent secretaries immediately as this deployment takes immediate effect. All handover processes must be completed immediately,” the statement reads.
NOP reports there has been political tension between Fubara and his predecessor, Nyesom Wike.
Wike, who is the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), is accused of plotting to unseat his estranged political godson, Fubara.
Many commissioners in Fubara’s cabinet either served while Wike held sway as governor or were personally nominated by him.
Most, therefore, are loyal to the FCT Minister rather than Governor Fubara.
PDP intensifies consultations with stakeholders on Rivers Caretaker Committee crisis
Meanwhile, the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says it will intensify consultations with the party’s governors’ forum among other stakeholders to find political solutions to its leadership crisis in Rivers.
The NWC disclosed this in a statement issued by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Debo Ologunagba in Abuja, after the committee’s meeting on Tuesday in Abuja.
Ologunagba said that the NWC at the meeting, reviewed the issue of the PDP Caretaker Committee of Rivers.
He said that after an extensive deliberation, the NWC noted the existence of an ex-parte order issued by the Federal High Court, Abuja, restraining the NWC from further action with respect to the status of the Rivers State Caretaker Committee List as published.
“However, while the Rivers state caretaker committee list as published stands in compliance with the Order of the Court.
“The NWC notes the concerted intervention and efforts of various organs of the party, particularly the PDP Governors’ Forum to finding a political solution to the issue of the River Caretaker Committee.
“The NWC therefore resolved to, in conjunction with the PDP, intensify action in its continued consultation to resolving the issues of the Rivers State PDP chapter amicably,” he said.