The Senior Special Adviser on Media to the Rivers State Sole Administrator, Hector Igbikiowubo, has stated that the gazette imposing emergency rule in the state granted the sole administrator “sweeping powers.”
Igbikiowubo issued a warning to supporters of the suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara, urging them to exercise restraint in light of ongoing protests against the state’s sole administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd.).
Speaking to The PUNCH on Tuesday, Igbikiowubo described the continued protests by Fubara’s supporters as a test of Ibas’s resolve.
However, he emphasised that the sole administrator had chosen to exercise restraint rather than use the broad powers granted to him by the gazette.
President Bola Tinubu had on March 18 imposed a state of emergency on Rivers State, suspending Governor Fubara, his deputy,Prof. Ngozi Odu, and the state lawmakers for six months.
