The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused Rivers Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, of being the \u201csupreme architect\u201d of the crisis in the state.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

APC national spokesperson, Felix Morka, described the crisis rocking the oil-rich state as horrific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cQuite contrary to the PDP\u2019s misplaced quibbles against Chief Okocha\u2019s comments, Governor Siminalayi Fubara is the supreme architect of the horrific crisis rocking Rivers state,\u201d Morka said in a Thursday statement in reaction to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)\u2019s claim of an alleged plot to take over the government of Rivers forcefully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the opposition party made the \u201cfake\u201d claim without addressing the issues bedevilling the state, accusing the governor of showing a disdain for the rule of law since he assumed office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since assuming office over a year ago, Governor Fubara has displayed reckless disdain for the rule of law and democratic institutions and conducted his government in flagrant violation of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn an unprecedented display of autocratic arrogance, Governor Fubara declared the democratically elected Rivers state House of Assembly to be non-existent and, without lawful authority, constituted a bogus and an illegal three-man sham Assembly in brazen violation of express provisions of the Constitution on the threshold composition of the House of Assembly and in disregard of the separation of powers doctrine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Governor has continued to expend public funds without lawful appropriations by a duly constituted legislature, thereby undermining the will of the good people of Rivers State and their right to effective and accountable democratic governance,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Morka, a \u201cserious and focused\u201d governor would have set a clear programme to conduct local government elections in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused Rivers Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, of being the \u201csupreme architect\u201d of the crisis in the state. APC national spokesperson, Felix Morka, described the crisis rocking the oil-rich state as horrific. \u201cQuite contrary to the PDP\u2019s misplaced quibbles against Chief Okocha\u2019s comments, Governor Siminalayi Fubara is the supreme architect of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4729,"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions\/4729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}