INC tasks Tinubu

The Ijaw National Congress (INC) Worldwide, has urged President Tinubu to pay close attention to political developments in Rivers to avert breakdown of law and order.

Prof. Benjamin Okaba, President INC, in a statement in Abuja, said the political tension in the state was capable breaching public peace and threaten democracy in the state.

“Rivers is of special interest to the INC as lots of ljaw people are indigenes of the state.

“The INC believes that the issues we are dealing with in Rivers are far beyond political godfatherism, but that of desperation for state capture by all means and at all cost.

“The extent to which some of the dramatis personae are going with their self-seeking adventurous activities is quite worrisome as it appears that they do not care if democracy is truncated in Nigeria.

“Local Government elections are not new in Nigeria. Indeed, it is a constitutional requirement that falls within the legislative purview of the states,’’ he said.

He said three states in Nigeria, Akwa-Ibom, Benue and Jigawa conducted local government elections at the same time as Rivers with less rancour.

“It bears questioning why the elections in Rivers attracted such desperation and attention to the extent that the courts and the Nigerian Police became over-interested participants in the drama,” the INC President said.

Okaba added that INC could not comprehend how a Federal High Court would restrain the Police from performing her constitutional responsibilities.