No Court Order Against Rivers State Sole Admin — Fubara’s CoS Says
The Chief of Staff to Governor Siminalayi of Rivers State, Dr Edison Ehie, has debunked reports that he secured an order of a High Court to prevent the appointed Sole Administrator of the State, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd.) from assuming office.
Dr Ehie described the purported order as false, fake, and malicious and deliberately concocted by some desperate individuals bent on escalating the political tension in the State.
Ehie pointedly said that fictitious court order and lawsuit could not in any material particular emanated from him, stressing that he had no intention whatsoever in disrupting governance in the state, and therefore called on members of the public to dismiss the report as an attempt to spread misinformation and incite disaffection.
This was as the Chief of Staff to the suspended Governor, said there was no way he could have filed a suit to challenge the appointment of the Sole Administrator, stressing that the reports were the handiwork of “low minds” who were unable to even spell his name correctly.
These were contained in a statement issued on Thursday in Port Harcourt in which he urged members of the public to disregard the such false claims, stressing that he remains law-abiding and committed to conducting himself with decorum.
He said that reports were obvious fake news being spread on social media by delusional minds bent on continuing to aggravate the already tensed 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.
According to Ehie; “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 same 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 has no intention to act in any way that will present me as a disruptor,” he said.
