The Coalition of United Political Events, CUPP, has described President Bola Tinubu as a significant participant within the protracted political battle between the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, and the Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara.
In response to CUPP, Rivers State is just not falling aside by happenstance as it’s being consciously immolated as a political providing to President Bola Tinubu.
CUPP famous that two distinguished figures, laid low with the shadow of irrelevance and consumed by the necessity for highly effective patronage, have traded the mantle of accountable management for grand gestures of submission, willingly torching the collective future of thousands and thousands in what it described as a shameful rivalry over who can bow lowest earlier than the throne of Tinubu’s authority.
“On this orchestrated tragedy, the real victims stay the extraordinary residents of Rivers State, whose peace, prosperity, and democratic rights are being coldly exchanged for the fleeting safety and to safe the non-public survival of their leaders and preservation of particular person relevance,” an announcement signed by the Nationwide Secretary of CUPP, Excessive Chief Peter Ameh, mentioned.
The opposition coalition famous that the lingering disaster, which has seen a number of interventions together with a state of emergency and peace accords brokered by the Presidency, has finally consolidated federal management over Rivers State politics.
“President Tinubu is the winner within the battle between Wike and Fubara. Each shall be asking, ‘How excessive?’ at any time when Tinubu tells them to leap,” Chief Ameh said.
He emphasised that whereas the 2 principal actors could look like in rivalry, the decision of the deadlock has positioned each leaders firmly underneath the affect of the Presidency, successfully ending any semblance of impartial political maneuvering within the oil-rich state.
Nevertheless, Chief Ameh lamented that the actual losers on this energy wrestle are the great individuals of Rivers State.
“Your state has been completely underneath siege,” he declared, pointing to the disruption of governance, erosion of democratic establishments, and the diversion of assets and a focus from important improvement must infinite political intrigues.
CUPP referred to as on the individuals of Rivers State to stay vigilant and demand accountable management from their leaders, urging a return to issue-based politics that focuses on the welfare of residents over private ambitions.
The coalition reaffirmed its dedication to defending democracy and the rule of regulation throughout Nigeria, warning that unchecked federal overreach in state issues units a harmful precedent for the nation’s federalism.
