A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Hyacinth Ngwu, has backed the declaration of emergency rule in Rivers State, describing the move as a good intervention to forestall ill-wind in the country.
Ngwu, who is the former South-East publicity secretary of the APC, told newsmen on Wednesday in Enugu, that President Tinubu must have considered the strategic and economic importance of Rivers State before deciding to declare emergency rule.
According to him, Tinubu’s timely and swift intervention deserves commendation, adding that “Rivers State is one of the strategic states, economically in Nigeria. If the state was allowed to slide into full anarchy, it would have been an ill wind for all Nigerians.
“This is a very good intervention. The state before the presidential intervention was sliding into anarchy.
“The state House of Assembly complex was brazenly demolished and not rebuilt for several months. This is very unfortunate.
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“The governor and the members of the state House of Assembly who were all elected on the same day to provide good governance, secure lives and property of the residents of Rivers State became alienated from their elective roles.”
Ngwu noted that the political impasse was gradually entering the judicial arm of government before the “thoughtful intervention.
“I thank President Tinubu for coming to restore sanity and respect for constituted authority in Rivers State.”
