The Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Rivers State, says the State’s lawmakers can hold their officials sittings anywhere outside the State House of Assembly Conplex that has been demolished on the orders of the State Governor, Simi Fubara.
Chairman of the Committee, Tony Okocha, said at a press briefing in Abuja on Thursday, t
that it is not the structure but human beings that make the State Assembly what it is.
He spoke against the background of the political crisis in the State that led to 27 State House of Assembly members defecting to the APC, from the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
Okocha accused the Governor, who is of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) of instigating crisis in the State and that the APC would not allow that.
According to Okocha: ” You cannot place something on nothing and you expect it to stand. And illegality is illegaty. What makes an assembly is not the structure, but the human beings in that Assembly.
”So, an Assembly can be moved to anywhere provided the mace, which is the symbol of authority, is there. As at yesterday, about 27 members sat and took the far-reaching decisionn on state matters. You will see all of them signed underneath those decisions.
”I read a philosopher called Frank Fano, he said the gift you give to an intransigent government is civil disobedience. He also said that it is unthinkable love disobedience before the law. So, there is a case of anarchy. And it is within the ambit of the PDP.
”It is not like we have a breakdown of law and order. But, this is an in nternal wrangling in PDP. That they are moving and being allowed to be taken to the centre stage.”
Former Governor of the State and current Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, who is still officially in the PDP, is alleged to be behind the crisis following his face-off with Fubara.
