BREAKING NEWS: Don’t politicise Rivers reconciliation, ex-IYC president tells Fubara

Siminalayi Fubara

 A former President of the Ijaw Youths Council, Worldwide, Udengs Eradiri, has called on the suspended Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, to refrain from politicizing the reconciliation required to restore democratic governance in the crude oil rich state.

Eradiri, who was also a former Commissioner for Youths and later Environment in Bayelsa State alleged that Fubara is not sincerely displaying the expected willingness and commitment to genuine reconciliation.

In a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, he expressed dismay thatFubara had not deepened the reconciliation process after his first meeting with his estranged political godfather and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike.

“I was disturbed, shocked and surprised to hear that the suspended Governor Fubara has yet to hold reconciliatory meetings with some critical stakeholders such as the Speaker and members of the suspended House of Assembly, aggrieved Rivers elders and those local government chairmen, who were in the same political family with him.

“The recent media chat of Chief Wike is instructive and revealing especially where he said that Governor Fubara was doing reconciliation on television and radio. This for me is a low mark and does not sit well with the required antidote to resolve the crisis and return democracy to Rivers”. He said

Eradiri, advised Fubara to show leadership by owning the reconciliation process and avoid showmanship capable of truncating the Rivers peace process.

He added, “Suddenly, those who called themselves Fubara’s have resumed their singing and dancing and shows where the make remarks and cast innuendos inimical to any peace process.

“Fubara must discourage his supporters from engaging in similar political showbiz and busybody that worsened the crisis in Rivers”.

The former IYC President said Fubara should be thinking of engaging with governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party to withdraw the case they instituted at the Supreme Court on emergency rule against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

According to him, “This is where I think by now the reconciliation should progressed to. There is nothing the President can do on this matter because that case at the Supreme Court has tied his hands.

“The matter is subjudice and Fubara is expected to reach out to the governors to withdraw the matter as part of the reconciliation process.

“Governor Fubara should also know that if he is reinstated without genuine reconciliation, the bad blood will continue and may lead to his impeachment”.

“Lack of reconciliation will only return the state to a violent part and make nonsense of the emergency rule instituted to save him from impeachment,” Eradiri added.