Clergy Urges Government to Nurture Democracy by Averting Rivers Crisis

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A clergy of a methodist church in Nigeria, bishop Dr. Sunday Onuoha, says the local government councils elections crisis rocking Rivers State southern Nigeria may metamorphose into a national crisis if nothing is done urgently.

Bishop Onuoha, who spoke on the sidelines of the rift between Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State and former governor of Rivers, the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, called on Nigerians to rise up and defend the country’s democracy.
He also said that a spade should be call a spade by cautioning those who are fueling the political instability in Rivers State, maintaining that if not checked, something terrible might happen.
It would be recalled that the Action People’s Party (APP) won 22 local government areas, with the Action Alliance taking the last seat in the last local government Polls in Rivers
Prior to the election, the Nigerian Minister of F. C. T. Mr. Wike and Governor Fubara clashed over control of the state’s political structure.

 

Lateefah Ibrahim

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