The Rivers Elders and Leaders Forum (RELF) has rejected the resolutions and directives issued by President Bola Tinubu regarding the political crisis in Rivers State, stating that they cannot override existing court orders and are in violation of the Nigerian Constitution.
The Rivers Elders and Leaders Forum (RELF) has said that the resolutions and subsequent directives issued after Monday’s peace parley on the political crisis in Rivers State at the instance of President Bola Tinubu , cannot override subsisting orders of the Court on the issues. RELF disclosed this in a communique issued in Port Harcourt on Tuesday night after its emergency meeting in response to President Tinubu ’s intervention and directives on the current political crisis in Rivers State.
The communique, which was read by former Governor of Old Rivers State, Chief Rufus Ada-George, stated that the resolutions and directives also contravened the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, which the President sworn to uphold. It read in part: “Rising from an emergency meeting of Rivers Elders and Leaders Forum held 19 December, 2023 in response to the intervention and directives of the President, Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu to the current political crisis in Rivers State. “We recall that in our communiqué of 17th and 18th December, 2023, we urged M
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