Rivers Crisis: Fubara’s Plan To Probe Wike’s Administration In Order – Kalu

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Chief Emeka Charles Kalu, has okayed the plan by the Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara, to probe the past adminis­tration of former Governor Nye­som Wike......Read The Full Article>>.....Read The Full Article>>

Speaking with Sunday Inde­pendent on Saturday, Kalu, the National Coordinator of Peoples Democratic Party Coalition (PD­PCO), said the decision is normal, adding that any freshly inaugu­rated government is expected to audit the activities of the previous leadership.

Kalu said that such a probe pro­motes accountability and places the new government on the right direction for planning and execu­tion of projects.

He stated: “As for Fubara’s resolve to constitute a panel of inquiry into the spending of the past administration, it is normal and any government that is fresh­ly inaugurated is expected to au­dit the activities of the previous leadership.

“That promotes accountabil­ity and also places the new gov­ernment in the right direction for planning and execution of projects.”

Kalu lamented that the politi­cal crisis rocking Rivers State has actually made governance a tug of war in the oil-rich Niger Delta state, especially the prevailing leg­islative disharmony.

According to him, “One thing about governance is that proce­dures have been spelt out by the law and going against such rules always truncate the tenets of de­mocracy and accountability.

“Prominence in the tussles is the issue of whether the factional 27 lawmakers have by their actions of defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC) lost their seats.

“I think the court will do jus­tice to this very issue, bothering on the legality of their actions. A subsisting judgment of the court, called judicial precedence on sim­ilar matters settles it.

“A political solution could have helped in resolving the crisis if not for the defection of the 27 law­makers who left the PDP on whose platform they were elected incon­siderate of the extant Section 109 (g) of the Constitution.

“We manage the crisis by pro­viding a window for settlement rather than flaming the fire. This situation, if not properly man­aged, may degenerate into the state being plunged into further crisis leading to a breakdown of law and order.”