The suspended Rivers State Government has refuted claims that a High Court order has been granted to prevent Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd.), the newly appointed Sole Administrator, from resuming.
Dr Edison Ehie, Chief of Staff to suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara, denounced the charges as baseless and nasty, blaming them on persons aiming to aggravate political tensions in the state.
In a statement made on Thursday, Ehie denied filing a complaint to challenge the appointment, condemning the news as the work of “low minds” who couldn’t even spell his name properly.
He asked the public to reject the allegations, claiming that he continues to follow the law and is committed to acting appropriately.
The statement read, “My attention has been drawn to an obvious fake news story being spread on social media by delusional minds, who are bent on continuing to aggravate the already tense political atmosphere in the state, to the effect that I secured ‘an order” from the Rivers State High Court ‘preventing the Sole Administrator’ Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (rtd), ‘from resuming duties” in Government House, Port Harcourt.
“The malicious post claimed that the alleged order was granted in a fictitious suit I purportedly filed challenging ‘the Presidential Pronouncement of State of Emergency in Rivers State” as ‘unconstitutional”.
“Ordinarily, I would not have reacted to this empty social media rant by low minds and never-do-wells who thrive on fomenting trouble and causing disaffection among the people of the state, but to save the gullible public from buying into this cheap blackmail and misinformation and believing it to be true.
“The truth is that even the author is so uneducated and illiterate that he or she cannot correctly spell my name or the names of others he or she claims to be writing about or even the suit number and when it was filed or heard.
“It is important to advise the general public and particularly the good people of Rivers State to discountenance this baseless, false and malicious post, as it is intended to create bad blood among the people while painting me as a non-conformist.
“I have since decided to be law-abiding and conduct my affairs peacefully in accordance with the law, holding strong to my faith and God, and have no intention to act in any way that will present me as a disruptor.”
Ehie insisted that the supposed court ruling and lawsuit were fake, underlining that he had no intention of disrupting state governance.
He urged the public to ignore the report as an attempt to propagate falsehoods and sow discord.
