The Nigeria Civil Service Union (NCSU) has given President Bola Ahmed Tinubu knocks for declaring a state of emergency in Rivers State following the deepening political crisis in the State.
The Rivers State Chairman of NCSU, Comrade Chukwuka Richman Osumah, noted while reacting to the development in an interview in Port Harcourt, that the President's decision does not fully address the issues at stake.
According to him, as long as the President failed to say anything about the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Chief Nyesom Wike, in his nationwide broadcast, the real intention of the state of emergency would continue to hover within the realms of conjectures.
He said the action of the President would have made meaning if he had equally wielded the big stick on Wike, who he described as the real agent provocateur in the entire political saga in the State.
According to him, suspending for six months Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his Deputy, Prof Ngozi Odu, and leaving Wike out of the whole political episode, is suspect, as the President's action is not capable of calming frayed nerves and ultimately resolving the political crisis in the State.
Osumah further noted that it would have been proper for the President to have wielded the big stick on Wike, in order to balance the scale, to achieve the much-needed peace and genuine reconciliation in the State.
He called on civil servants in the State to remain calm and peaceful, and watch events as they unfold in the State, and thanked Sir Fubara for all that he had done to give the workers a new lease of life.
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