Opunabo Inko-Tariah, the special adviser to former Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike, spoke in an interview with ARISE NEWS on Thursday, addressing concerns over potential impeachment moves against Governor Fubara.
Inko-Tariah staunchly defended the governor against the impeachment threats, citing political sentiments as the reason behind them. According to him, some people are adamant for some parochial reasons to ensure that either they remove the governor on the basis of impeachment, which is not removal but simply means official indictment, or they make the state ungovernable for the governor.
He addressed the issue of defection among House of Assembly members and reestablished that once legislators defect from their political parties, they automatically forfeit their seats, citing legal provisions. He highlighted the efforts of Governor Fubara made towards peace and reconciliation, indicating his reluctance to employ coercive legal measures against defected members. Inko-Tariah also stated emphatically that the people of Rivers State are only fighting in a bid to protect the governor’s seat, and that the eight-point agenda signed by the governor in Aso Rock was not planned on legality but on legitimacy.
Regarding allegations made by local government chairmen, he dismissed them as baseless and clarified that delays in fund disbursement were routine. He stated that the governor was not holding back local government allocations, and that delays of one or two weeks were normal. The only local government that withheld their allocation was Emohua, and that was because their chairman bugged at the increment of workers' salaries.
Overall, Inko-Tariah's interview shed light on the intricacies of the ongoing dispute and defended Governor Fubara against the impeachment threats.
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