Rivers crisis may snowball into national crisis, says group

A group, ‘Asiwaju Total Loyalty Team,’ has warned that the protracted Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) crisis in Rivers State may snowball into a national crisis, urging the two sides to sheathe their swords.

The group described the political war as a slap on democracy and constitutionalism, noting that that rascality is peculiar to the PDP.

Its leader, Alhaji Oluwatoyin Balogun, condemned the posture of the PDP leaders on the crisis, adding that the problem was being fueled from the Presidency.

In a statement in Lagos, Balogun chided the PDP for its cruelty, brigandage, and impunity, wondering what would have happened, if Governor Rotimi Amaechi is from another party.

He queried: “What has Amaechi done to deserve this punishment? Should he allowed himself to be tossed around without raising an eyebrow? Is it a sin that a governor should protect the interest of the state he was elected to govern? Should he keep quiet when the oil fields were taken away from his state to Bayelsa State?

Balogun pointed out that President Goodluck Jonathan has continued in the footsteps of his benefactor, Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, who fueled similar crises in Oyo, Plateau and Bayelsa states, when he ruled the country.

He added: “We take a total exception to the President’s position on the Rivers State saga that he has no hand in the show of shame. This is totally misleading. The public needed not to be told where the accusing fingers should be directed”.

Balogun condemned the biased role played by the police in the crisis. He said: “The unpatriotic conduct of the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mbu Joseph Mbu, should be condemned in its totality. The police chief should not only be removed as suggested by the House of Representatives. Nigeria is so sophisticated to be made a laughing stock by Mbu and his likes in Abuja. What played out in the Rivers State House of Assembly complex is an insult to democracy”.

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