{"id":68095,"date":"2024-01-01T13:21:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T13:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=68095"},"modified":"2024-01-01T13:21:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T13:21:16","slug":"battle-for-rivers-red-biro-i-am-in-charge-say-fubara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=68095","title":{"rendered":"(+Video) Battle for Rivers red biro: I am in charge, says Fubara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Though one of his staunch supporters, Ehie Edison, inexplicably resigned as factional Speaker of the State House of Assembly, and as a state lawmaker, the Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Siminalayi Fubara, on new year&#8217;s day, in church, dropped his own bombshell: Those who want to usurp his financial authority as chief executive and financial officer have failed!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Dramatising his position amid resounding cheers, he urged Rivers indigenes not to be frightened, as he was determined to protect their interest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">The viral video of his comments &#8211; see below &#8211; is believed to be his response to speculations that he had agreed to sell out to his predecessor and his supporters who still want to control the purse of the oil-rich State.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I want to urge the great people of Rivers State, \u201cdo not be frightened\u2026!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RHYim1wvwr\">pic.twitter.com\/RHYim1wvwr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Siminalayi Fubara (@SimFubaraKSC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SimFubaraKSC\/status\/1741722674705903965?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Fubara and Abuja Minister, Barr. Nyesom Wike, are believed to be involved in a war of attrition over political and financial control of the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Political foes of Wike, including a former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, and his Rivers State supporters, and prominent Ijaw citizens and people are believed to have massed behind Fubara; while others of Rivers extraction, made rich and powerful by Wike are backing the Minister.<\/span><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_240101_140909_615.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though one of his staunch supporters, Ehie Edison, inexplicably resigned as factional Speaker of the State House of Assembly, and as a state lawmaker, the Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Siminalayi Fubara, on new year&#8217;s day, in church, dropped his own bombshell: Those who want to usurp his financial authority as chief executive and financial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":67987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[6306,6415,742],"class_list":["post-68095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-politics","tag-fubara","tag-red-biro","tag-wike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}