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Vice Admiral Ibas: An Impudent Perpetrator Of Another Layer Of Illegality—Chief Eze

<h4>Vice Admiral Ibas<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<h4><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a> <&sol;strong>reports that erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party &lpar;nPDP&rpar; and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress&comma; Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has condemned in the strongest terms&comma; the appointment of Local Government Administrators for the 23 Local Government Areas of Rivers state&comma; by the Sole Administrator&comma; Vice Admiral Ibok Ette Ibas &lpar;rtd&rpar;&comma; saying the action is a chronic aberration and barefaced slap on Nigeria&&num;8217&semi;s Constitution&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Chief Eze stated that the command and obey leadership style of the sole administrator has earned him the accolade&&num;8217&semi;s as an impudent perpetrator of another layer of illegality&comma; as his appointment ab initio&comma; was a product of full blown illegality and undemocratic act of the highest order&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The APC chieftain posited that if not that Ibas is acting an already drafted devious script&comma; he could not have mustered the courage to display this high level of intransigence in the heat of the nationwide condemnation that trailed his ill-gotten appointment by President Bola Tinubu&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Reacting on the recent appointment of Local Government administrators in Rivers state&comma; Chief Eze in a statement made available to the media&comma; said more worrisome is the fact that Ibas and his demi-gods have flouted valid orders of courts of competent jurisdictions and continued to make mockery of Nigeria&&num;8217&semi;s Judiciary&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Before the announcement of the appointments of LG administrators by Ibas&comma; which was stealthily made to steal a march on Rivers people&comma; an order of court was obtained asking him to appear and show cause why he should not be restrained from making such unlawful appointments&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;The order was issued Monday&comma; April 7&comma; 2025 by Justice Turaki Mohammed of the Federal High Court&comma; Port Harcourt in Suit No&colon; FHC&sol;PHC&sol;CS&sol;46&sol;2025&comma; between Pilex Centre &amp&semi; Anor v the Administrator&comma; Rivers State&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Upon being served the court process on Wednesday&comma; April 8&comma; 2025&comma; the Administrator announced the appointment and added that it takes effect from Monday&comma; in a clear attempt to foist on the court a fait accompli and render nugatory any consequential order that may arise from the Applicants’ motion before the court&&num;8221&semi; Eze observed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Eze noted that Ibas&&num;8217&semi; insensitive appointments have raised serious constitutional questions&comma; which only President Tinubu&semi; the FCT Minister&comma; Nyesom Wike&semi; the Senate President&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;">Godswill Akpabio<&sol;a>&semi; and their stooge&comma; Vice Admiral Ibas&comma; will answer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Section 7 of the Nigerian Constitution clearly provides that &OpenCurlyQuote;Local government administration by democratically elected local government council is guaranteed’&comma; and in the same vein&comma; orders of court are made to be obeyed&comma; Eze submitted&comma; wondering while the Presidency and the National Assembly are hell-bent on ruining democracy and suffocating local government administration in the country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The former spokesman of the defunct nPDP&comma; also condemned the action of the sole administrator in appointing Chairman and members of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission &lpar;RSIEC&rpar; and announced the conduct of Local Government election in August&comma; describing such decision as uncalled for&comma; pre meditated&comma; bizzare and ill-conceived&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In view of the above summations&comma; Chief Eze was taken aback as to how the temporary mandate of ensuring law and order extended to dissolution of boards of agencies and parastatals of government&comma; appointment of new boards and conduct of elections&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Without mincing words&comma; Eze contended that happenings within few days of the appointment of Ibas as sole administrator have laid bare&comma; the ulterior motive behind the declaration of state of emergency in Rivers State by President Tinubu and subsequent suspension of Governor Fubara&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>All these undemocratic acts and flagrant disobedienice to court orders by these anti democratic forces&comma; are technically aimed to handover political structures in Rivers State and the common patrimony to Wike&comma; the statement said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to Eze&comma; President Tinubu and Wike cannot try this constitutional aberration and rape of Nigeria&&num;8217&semi;s democracy in any of the Southeast States&comma; let alone&comma; Northern Nigeria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;This crass personilization of power by President Tinubu and Wike cannot happen in any of the South-East states&comma; talkless of Northern Nigeria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Just because of one man&&num;8217&semi;s insatiable thirst and habitual greed to cling unto power&comma; Rivers state must boil and be set ablaze if his mission is not actualized&comma; Eze wondered&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Though&comma; not stamping any seal of approval to the infamous state of emergency&comma; suspension of democratic institutions&comma; appointment of<br &sol;>&NewLine;LG administrators etc&comma; Eze said&comma; the unfortunate turn out of events in Rivers State&comma; suggested that Wike was even out smarted by Tinubu and Akpabio&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;The truth is that Wike can assume to be a champion of Rivers politics&comma; but when it comes to national politics&comma; he knows he is not saleable&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;No matter the blackmail&comma; eye service&comma; pouring of invectives on perceived political foes of Tinubu&comma; truthwise&comma; Wike cannot dislodge Amaechi&comma; Akpabio&comma; Umahi&comma; Uzodimma&comma; and Oshiomohle in APC&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;These men are waiting for him in and out of APC&&num;8221&semi; Eze said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; Eze observed that &&num;8220&semi;these act of notoriety and illegality are evil tests to the patience of the good people of Rivers State&semi; to gauge their reactions&semi; whether as a conquered people or a people bold enough to fight in defense of their constitutional right and mandate&comma; with bravery&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Chief Eze maintained that the activities of the sole administrator portend grave danger to the Nigerian Constitution and the authority of the courts&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Unfortunately&comma; his appointer&comma; sees himself as the alter ego&comma; the alpha and omega&comma; far above the laws of the land&period; And with that understanding&comma; Ibok Ette Ibas acts with brazen disregard for constituted authorities&comma; laws&comma; and feelings of the people&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Therefore&comma; the APC chief has called on Nigerians to unite&comma; lay off differences and tackle head on&comma; the dangerous despot President Tinubu has turned himself into&comma; before he decimates the country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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