FUBARA, LAWMAKERS FEUD THROWS RIVETS INTO TURMOIL. (PHOTO).
Fubara, lawmakers feud throws Rivers into turmoil • Three pro-governor legislators elect Speaker • Council chiefs, govt disagree over withheld allocation The crisis in Rivers State took a turn for the worse yesterday. Three members of the House of Assembly loyal to Governor Siminialayi Fubara declared themselves as the authentic House of Assembly members. They elected one of them, Victor Oko-Jumbo, representing Bonny Constituency, as Speaker. This follows the governor’s declaration of 27 lawmakers who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as illegitimate. The election of Oko-Jumbo as speaker took place at about 10 am. Thereafter, he declared: “All laws, plenary sessions and actions taken by the illegal House members are hereby declared void and a nullity in the eyes of the law.’’ Oko-Jumbo’s election by three Pro-Fubara lawmakers, was in spite of the peace deal brokered between the warring parties by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu late la
According to The Nation,who reported that ahead of the expiration of the tenure of the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria {CAN},Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor in July,a group,Christ Redeemers Union {CRU},claimed the Presidency was interested in its election for selfish reasons.CRU's National Director Dr. Ebenezer Olusola Abednego told reporters in Abuja that Christians would resist any plan by the presidency to install its choice as CAN president.He said ''There is tension in CAN and the action of the Presidency has polarised the association along North-South dichotomy as northern religious leaders are being lobbied to support the plot.We have it on good authority that any leader being installed by the Presidency in CAN would avoid any virulent criticism of the Buhari government and this has informed it desperation to install a leadership that will not be critical''.But Special Adviser to the President {Media and Communications} /mr. Femi Adesina dismissed the allegation.He said ''It means that some Nigerians don't know their President.Your President,Muhammadu Buhari,does not interfere in things like thst,so they need to know the person who is their President.The people making the allegation can't insist that they are correct because that is the man for you and Buhari doesn't interfere in anything.If he doesn't interfere in state elections where his party,APC,is having candidates,how will he interfere in CAN elections?.They don't know their President''.One more photo below. 
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