Before Nyesom Wike’s Fire Consumes Nigeria

 By Luka Danboyi

The self-immolating tendency for people to be indifferent to situations in which they are not directly involved seems to be playing out in the debacle in Rivers State. Curiously, there are people who are enjoying the political drama between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his predecessor-cum-godfather, Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.

*Wike 

There is no question that the vast majority of Nigerians are inured to the shenanigans of a disoriented political elite that hardly reckons with the plight of the people. Only such a situation would produce the present economic nightmare afflicting a country so richly endowed that, less than 50 years ago, other countries were visiting to understudy its impressive developmental effort and to borrow ‘seeds’ for their agricultural revolution.

No Emergency Rule In Rivers

 By Charles Okoh

 The senseless crisis in Rivers State has continued un­abated and from the looks of things, it might just con­tinue until common sense prevails or until those who are fueling it run out of firepower. I call the crisis senseless because there can only be one captain in a ship and as it is in Rivers, the State Governor, Mr. Simi­nalayi Fubara, is the captain in the state and whatever may be happen­ing out of the state is irrelevant, im­material and inconsequential.

*Fubara, Wike, Tinubu

The crisis last week following the expiration of the tenures of Local Government Council Chairmen in the state, took another dimension, as police, youths and other citizens occupied 21 council secretariats, re­sisting the outgoing chairmen and their supporters from gaining en­trance to the offices.