Fubara sacks commissioners, special advisers

Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has dissolved the State Executive Council and sacked all Special Advisers.

Fubara has also appointed a new Chief Press Secretary, Mr Onwuka Nzeshi.

The governor’s former CPC, Nelson Chukwudi, has been relieved of his appointment.

However, no reason was given for Chukwudi’s sack.

The cabinet dissolution was contained in a Government Special Announcement issued in Port Harcourt on Thursday by Nzeshi.

Fubara asked the commissioners and special advisers to hand over to the Permanent Secretaries or the most Senior officers in their Ministries with immediate effect.

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The statement reads, “His Excellency, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, GSSRS, Governor of Rivers State, has dissolved the State Executive Council.

“His Excellency, the Governor, has therefore directed all Commissioners and Special Advisers to hand over to the Permanent Secretaries or the most Senior officers in their Ministries with immediate effect.

“His Excellency further expresses his deepest appreciation to the outgoing members of the Executive Council, wishing them the best in their future endeavours.”

The latest development may be connected to the recent peace deal brokered by President Bola Tinubu between Fubara and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, in Abuja

This is the third time Tinubu would intervene in the Rivers political crisis with the governor, his estranged political godfather and members of the state house of assembly.

With the development, Fubara is expected to send a fresh list of commissioner nominees to the Martin Amaewhule-led House of Assembly for screening and confirmation.

It is gathered that as part of the agreement reached with Wike, Fubara is to accept some loyalists of the former I into his new cabinet, while outstanding commissioners who worked with Fubara now sacked may return.