“Dissolve Rivers Council Now” Group Tells Wike

The Niger Delta Renaissance Organisation NDRO has called on the Governor of Rivers state to quickly dissolve the local government councils foisted on the people of the state by the erstwhile governor of the Rivers state Chibuike Amaechi.

The group in a press statement signed by the National Secretary Barr. Kingsley Frank and Publicity Secretary Amakiri Christiana said the election that brought the Chairmen and councilors was a big slap on the sensibilities and reasonability of Rivers people orchestrated by the former governor whose stock in trade was to cause confusion and anarchy.

The group said the present governor allowing such illegitimacy to go on over a month after coming to power is not in the best interest of Rivers people who suffered so much under the past administration and his barrack politics.

The group urged the governor of Rivers state to borrow a leaf from his Plateau state counterpart who dissolved council chairs elected last year. “As much as we view the dissolution of the Local government executives with some reservations, we strongly believe that the Rivers state governor should do the same especially considering the mischief that surrounded the decision of the former governor to conduct council polls a week to his hand over day.

The group criticized the former head of the state independent electoral commission Prof. Augustine Ahiuzo for condescending so low as to agree with the former governor in his folly. “As much as we have the highest regards for the erstwhile Chairman of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission Prof. Augustine Ahiuzo, we regret to say that his decision to go ahead in conducting the most sham elections in the history of Rivers state has reduced his profile amongst the people of the state. This is not the best way to ice the cake for someone with the pedigree and acheivements of the former Vice Chancellor of the Rivers state University of Science and Technology. Rivers people actually expected something much more than what he did” the group said.