Mr Chisom Gbali, the Rivers State Commissioner for Youth under the suspended governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has raised the alarm over alleged plans to extend the emergency rule declared in the state.
Gbali stated this during an interview on AriseTV on Monday, April 7, 2025, where he alleged that the move was aimed at destabilising the current administration.
His words, “There is a plan to extend it (referring to the emergency rule). Before the end of the six months, they want to incite problems that will make the President make another pronouncement.
“Of course, you know if there is any pronouncement, it calls for the end of the administration.”
The suspended commissioner noted that “in politics, there is what we call body language. You will see that if you study the body language, that is the plan, where they set aside the subsisting projects, wanting to design a budget.
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“But you know someone that was sent to establish peace even wants to install sole administrators at the local government level.”
Gbali who also accused the FCT Minister and immediate past governor of the state, of orchestrating these plans, added that, “the former governor, who is the FCT minister, and his cohorts, the assembly members, the local chairmen whose tenure elapsed, as it were are the people I am talking about. Because they are not at rest with the achievement of the governor, they want to distort the administration.
“All these issues are geared towards 2027, and we are so surprised that His Excellency will be meddling in this kind of matter when there are more burning issues.
“People are dying every day in Plateau State, but there is no state of emergency. But in Rivers State, there was a declaration of emergency when we did not have anybody hurt. In Rivers State, everyone is going about their duty, and that is why everyone is calling on the President to rescind his decision.”
