Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has sacked the entire State Executive Council and all Special Advisers.
Fubara has also appointed a new Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Onwuka Nzeshi.
The governor’s former CPC, Nelson Chukwudi, has been relieved of his appointment.
A statement on Thursday signed by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Onwuka Nzeshi, said Governor Fubara directed all Commissioners and Special Advisers to hand over to the Permanent Secretaries or the most senior officers in their respective ministries with immediate effect.
However, no reason was given for Chukwudi’s sack.
The statement reads in part, “His Excellency, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, GSSRS, Governor of Rivers State, has dissolved the State Executive Council.
“His Excellency, the Governor, has therefore directed all Commissioners and Special Advisers to hand over to the Permanent Secretaries or the most Senior officers in their Ministries with immediate effect.
“His Excellency further expresses his deepest appreciation to the outgoing members of the Executive Council, wishing them the best in their future endeavours.”
With the development, Fubara is expected to send a fresh list of commissioner nominees to the Martin Amaewhule-led House of Assembly for screening and confirmation.
The dissolution comes 48 hours after Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, confirmed reconciliation efforts aimed at resolving the protracted political crisis in the state.
The latest development may be connected to the recent peace deal brokered by President Bola Tinubu between Fubara and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, in Abuja.
This is the third time Tinubu would intervene in the Rivers political crisis with the governor, his estranged political godfather and members of the state house of assembly.
It was learnt that the decision is part of the agreement reached with Wike, Fubara is to accept some loyalists of the former into his new cabinet, while outstanding commissioners who worked with Fubara now sacked may return.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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