By Correspondent.
The Tinubu Media Support Group (TMSG) has described the newfound harmony between Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara and the state’s House of Assembly as a vindication of President Bola Tinubu’s timely proclamation of the now-ended six-month emergency rule in the state.
In a statement signed by its Chairman Emeka Nwankpa and Secretary Dapo Okubanjo, TMSG noted that public assurances by the Governor and the lawmakers of a good working relationship are a far cry from their previous hard-line positions.
It said: ”We have noticed how some political elements, including those qualified to be regarded as elder statesmen, had dismissed President Bola Tinubu’s announcement of an end to the six months of emergency rule in Rivers State as nothing to celebrate.
”It is, however, a good development that the governor and members of the House of Assembly, whose actions led to the presidential proclamation, appear to have now seen things from a different perspective.
”From what the lawmakers said when they resumed plenary to Governor Fubara’s broadcast, it is crystal clear that there is a new spirit of harmony and conviviality between the two once-feuding parties that hitherto could not see eye-to-eye thereby grounding peace, order and governance in the state.
”This new development, for us, is a far cry from the politically toxic situation that compelled President Tinubu to declare s state of emergency. It is a major pushback from the tipping moment of looming crisis when both parties held on to their entrenched positions despite a court ruling.
”So it beggars belief that opposition elements, including a former Vice President who should know, claimed that there was no basis for the declaration of emergency rule in a state holding a chunk of the country’s oil infrastructure.
”We invite Nigerians to note how Governor Fubara, in the course of the state-wide broadcast, acknowledged President Tinubu’s noble role in successfully brokering a peace process which led to all the parties accepting to bury the hatchet in the interest of the good people of the oil-rich state.
”The implication of that comment is that it was within the period of the emergency rule that peace was brokered contrary to the position of those who insisted that there was no basis for the Presidential proclamation.
”We however express hope that, as the governor said, hard lessons have been learnt and that all the parties would put the politics behind them to ensure that peace and stability truly return to Rivers State”
The group also urged all the political stakeholders who were fanning the crisis to allow peace to reign in the state.
