JUST-IN: APC asks FG to declare state of emergency in Rivers

...says Fubara is helpless

Governor Sir Similanayi Fubara

The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the opposition party in Rivers, has asked President Bola Tinubu to declare a state of emergency in the state.

The state’s opposing party in Rivers, APC made this call in response to the ongoing political crisis in Rivers

Speaking to journalist in Port Harcourt, the state capital on Wednesday, the Caretaker Committee Chairman of the APC in Rivers, Chief Tony Okocha, said, “Rivers State is at war. And the dramatis personae who are responsible for the mayhem that has claimed lives are known.

“The Governor is helpless, the police is helpless. Therefore the APC in Rivers State is calling for a state of emergency in Rivers State as a way of taming the mayhem, and the upsurge that is going on in the state. I call on the federal government to act fast in this regard.”

 

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