APC Chieftain Explains Why Tinubu Intervened in Rivers Crisis

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Reuben Olorunfunmi, has spoken on the intervention of President Bola Tinubu in the Rivers political crisis.

Olorunfunmi in his reaction condemned those criticising Tinubu’s intervention in Rivers state’s political crisis.

He said the President as the father of the nation had every right to intervene and that his interventions were not politically motivated.

You will recall that President Tinubu met with the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara and some stakeholders, where eight resolutions were agreed upon, including the recognition of the 27 lawmakers who dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the APC as well as the payment of their entitlements.

Falana and some senior lawyers had described the President’s intervention as a mere advisory and had no place in the constitution.

Ijaw Leader, Edwin Clark, also criticised the President’s stand on the crisis, saying the agreements reached were absurd.

Olorunfunmi, however, stated that the President intervened as the father of the nation, just ae he did with the Ondo crisis.

Olorunfunmi also faulted those saying the 27 lawmakers who defected to the APC had lost their seats, claiming it was common knowledge that the PDP has crisis here and there.