Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state has on
Thursday, October 8, sacked 22 caretaker
committee chairmen out of the 23 local
government areas of the state.
Governor Wike
In a statement at the Rivers state government
house signed by Opunabo Inko Tariah, the senior
special adviser on media and publicity to the
governor, Wike said : “The dissolution is with
immediate effect. The twenty two caretaker
committees are to handover to the various heads
of local government adminhistration.”
The fired caretaker committee chairmen had
spent the statutory three months allowed in
office by the constitution and the state
government law. The three-month tenure of the
chairmen expires today.
Warming Up For A Showdown
He said: “The statutory three months tenure for
Caretaker committees expires today.”
Wike had in the night of Thursday, July 9, sworn
in the 22 caretaker committee chairmen to
replace the elected council executives of the All
Progressives Congress who were dissolved by a
federal high court ruling delivered by Justice
Lambo Akanbi.
The governor said then that he had vowed to
respect the rule of law when he assumed office
on May 29 stressing that it was the reason why
he did not dissolve the APC led councils which
he said was illegally put in place by the Rotimi
Amaechi-led government.
He noted that some state governors who
inherited local government councils dissolved
them immediately they came on board but he
had to take time to allow due process to prevail.
However, it was not specified when a new
caretaker committees would be constituted and
sworn in to avoid any vacuum in government.
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