Stakeholders under the auspices of the Rivers Restoration Movement (RRM) have warned a freedom fighter, Alhaji Mujahid Asari-Dokubo against his penchant for dragging President Bola Ahmed Tinubu into the political crisis rocking Rivers State.
The group’s Director-General, Johnson Georgewill, and Secretary, Mrs Sarima Akpata, in a statement on Friday, described Asari-Dokubo’s recent television interview in which he attacked the President, Minister Nyesom Wike and issued some threats as baseless, malicious and misleading.
The statement said: “RRM on behalf of Rivers people take an exception to the direct insult and false accusation on Mr. President by Chief Asari wherein he said Mr President was supporting the FCT Minister to destabilise Rivers State.
“We are saying this because we all know President Tinubu is a democrat who believes in the rule of law and will never support illegality or injustice.
“Our group wants to assure Nigerians that all threats by Alhaji Asari that ‘something will happen’ if the law takes its place in Rivers State are empty and have no place in our constitutional democracy.
“As a group, we call on Chief Asari to rather channel his energy to advise his benefactor that he never supported in 2023 to obey the rule of law and not hinge on sentiments because Rivers State can never be a lawless society”.
RRM also said that the claims by Asari-Dokubo that he spent over two million dollars during the last election when he could not win his polling unit for President Tinubu was laughable and a barefaced lie.
The statement said: “Finally, Rivers Restoration Movement wants to make it clear that the victory of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Governor Sim Fubara in the 2023 General Elections in Rivers State was solely the effort of the leader of Rivers State politics and Minister Of the FCT Nyesom Wike, his Political family through the help of God Almighty.
“So, opportunists and people without political value should be ignored. RRM believes Rivers State runs a constitutional democracy and surely the law that grinds slowly will surely speak at the appropriate time”.
