Chairman of the caretaker committee of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Rivers State, Tony Okocha, has urged Governor Siminalayi Fubara to step down from his position, citing an alleged failure to deliver effective governance to the people of the state.
that Okocha made the call yesterday while addressing journalists at the party’s secretariat in Port Harcourt.
He accused Governor Fubara of violating the Nigerian constitution by running the state without a budget and failing to initiate the conduct of local government elections.
Okocha, who is also the representative of Rivers State on the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) also accused the Governor of violating the constitution by withholding the monthly allocation of the 23 LGAs in the state.
Okocha said, “The governor does not have power to withhold the monthly allocation to the 23 local government councils in the state.
However, the Rivers State government has said Fubara is great for the state and criticized Okocha for not knowing what’s happening there anymore.
In an SMS sent to journalists, the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Warisenibo Joe Johnson, said: “Chief Tony Okocha has lost touch with the happenings in the state.
“Governor Sim Fubara is the best thing that happened to the state and majority of Rivers people are appreciative of his ability to rewrite the political history of the state