{"id":1262,"date":"2024-06-20T11:18:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T11:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2024-06-20T11:18:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T11:18:24","slug":"declare-state-of-emergency-in-rivers-fubara-is-helpless-apc-writes-fg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2024\/06\/20\/declare-state-of-emergency-in-rivers-fubara-is-helpless-apc-writes-fg\/","title":{"rendered":"Declare State Of Emergency In Rivers, Fubara Is Helpless \u2013 APC Writes FG"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the opposition party in Rivers State, has urged President Bola Tinubu to declare a state of emergency in the state.<\/h4>\n<p>APC made this call in reaction to the ongoing political crisis in Rivers State since the swearing-in of Siminalayi Fubara as Governor of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the press in Port Harcourt, the state capital on Wednesday, the Caretaker Committee Chairman of the APC in Rivers, Chief\u00a0<strong>Tony Okocha<\/strong>, said,\u00a0<em>\u201cRivers State is at war. And the dramatis personae who are responsible for the mayhem that has claimed lives are known.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Governor is helpless, the police is helpless. Therefore the APC in Rivers State is calling for a state of emergency in Rivers State as a way of taming the mayhem, and the upsurge that is going on in the state. I call on the federal government to act fast in this regard.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-19\">\n<div class=\"c-ad \">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-4577410-4\" data-google-query-id=\"CKnAs5WG6oYDFZiCUAYdKc0GuQ\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/18855965\/In_content3_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This call by the APC is coming shortly after Governor Fubara swore in newly appointed caretaker chairman\u00a0 \u00a0for the 23 local government areas of the state.<\/p>\n<p><b>T<\/b>his event took place on Wednesday morning at the Government House in Port Harcourt, the capital of the state, with high-level security measures in place.<\/p>\n<p>This news platform reports that the appointment of the CTC chairmen was made a day following the submission of the list to the state House of Assembly, which is currently under the leadership of Speaker Victor Jumbo.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-20\">\n<div class=\"c-ad \">\n<div class=\"c-ad__label\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It should be mentioned that the Federal Government has the authority to declare a state of emergency in the face of a natural disaster, civil disorder, military conflict, disease outbreak, epidemic, or any other threat to public health and safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the opposition party in Rivers State, has urged President Bola Tinubu to declare a state of emergency in the state. APC made this call in reaction&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1264,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/1264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}