Dele Momodu, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, has condemned the Rivers State peace deal, stating that President Bola Tinubu cannot be the headmaster of both the state and federal governments.
Tinubu’s intervention in the political crisis involving Rivers State Governor Sim Fubara and FCT Minister Nyesom Wike, according to Momodu, was legally absurd.
Chronicle NG reports that Fubara and Wike have been at loggerheads over the control of Rivers State’s political structure and finances.
The schism resulted in legislators defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC), and some commissioners resigning from the Fubara-led executive council.
Tinubu brokered a peace deal between Wike and Fubara at the Presidential Villa in Abuja yesterday in an attempt to end the crisis.
As part of the peace agreement, Tinubu issued an eight-point resolution during the meeting.
Reacting to his verified Instagram handle, Momodu wrote, “The directives to Rivers State by a Federal President are really absurd in legal terms. No president can be a headmaster of both state and federal.
“What manner of democracy are we practicing that allows a president to intervene in the internal affairs of opposition parties and overrules the Constitution unchallenged, and our politicians comply as if they are in a slave camp?
“Opposition parties must vehemently oppose this brazen attempt at forcing a one-party dictatorship on Nigeria.”
