Also reacting, an elder statesman, Edwin Clark, described the resolutions reached during the truce brokered by the president as “The most unconstitutional, absurd and obnoxious resolutions at settling feuding parties that I have ever witnessed in my life.”
Clark, who is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), said it was obvious that Governor Fubara was ambushed and intimidated into submission but that the president should know that with all the powers he possesses, he cannot override the Constitution.
He said the Ijaw nation “Is prepared to face any consequences that may result in the political crisis in Rivers State. We will resist any attempt subtle, subterranean, covert, overt, to make an elected Ijaw son, Siminialayi Fubara, the governor of Rivers State, a servant, a stooge to Nyesom Wike.
“We will go to court to resist this oppressive action using all available constitutional and legal means.”
A chieftain of the APC in Rivers State, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze also described the terms of settlement as “Callous, draconian, demeaning and to say the least, embarrassing to the sensibilities of the lettered Rivers public.”
Eze, who is a loyalist of former governor of the state, Rotimi Amaechi, in a statement maintained that the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria must be respected because it is superior to any agreement signed under whatever circumstance.
