{"id":4911,"date":"2025-03-20T12:37:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T12:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=4911"},"modified":"2025-03-20T12:37:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T12:37:51","slug":"rivers-administrator-promises-to-work-with-stakeholders-fg-set-to-release-rivers-allocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2025\/03\/20\/rivers-administrator-promises-to-work-with-stakeholders-fg-set-to-release-rivers-allocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivers Administrator Promises To Work With Stakeholders, FG Set To Release Rivers Allocation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The newly sworn-in Sole Administrator for Rivers State, Vice Admiral Ibok-ete Ibas (rtd.), has promised to maintain law and order in the crisis-hit state.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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THE Federal Government on Wednesday said that the allocation for Rivers State will be released to the Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok Ibas (retd).<\/p>\n

The government also said President Bola Tinubu\u2019s declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State was timely and meant to avert an implosion in the state.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Ibas told reporters after he was sworn in by President Bola Tinubu at the State House in Abuja on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the main issue is that of maintaining law and order in the state, I think for any meaningful activities to take place in Rivers State, that is the utmost task that I have.\u201d<\/p>\n

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President Bola Tinubu swears in Vice Admiral Ibokette Ibas (rtd) as sole administrator for Rivers State in Abuja on March 19, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The retired naval chief promised \u201cto work together with other stakeholders to ensure that we bring peace, and order and security and stability to the people and government of Rivers State and Nigeria at large\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Tinubu, in a nationwide broadcast on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, imposed a state of emergency in Rivers State, suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his deputy Ngozi Odu; as well as the Rivers State House of Assembly members for six months.<\/p>\n

Tinubu hinged his decision on Section 305 of the 1999 Constitution, saying he can\u2019t continue to watch the political situation in Rivers escalate without taking any action.<\/p>\n

The president immediately appointed Ibas, Nigeria\u2019s Chief of Naval State from 2015 to 2021, as the sole administrator of the oil-rich state.<\/p>\n

The suspension of Fubara and other democratically elected representatives has been expressly rejected and condemned by many eminent Nigerians, legal luminaries, and groups including Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, Rotimi Amaechi, Femi Falana, the Labour Party (LP), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Nigerian Bar Association, the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), among others.<\/p>\n

However, the emergency rule has been praised by the pro-Nyesom Wike suspended lawmakers, who accused Fubara of contravening the apex court ruling on the political situation in the state.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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