Two decisions of the Rivers State Government lately have put the entire state in very poor light to the point of the ridiculous. It is difficult to not read arbitrariness, vindictiveness, whimsicality and impulsiveness into these decisions.
The first decision is of the legislative arm, working in concert with the executive arm, to reverse, at a strangely convenient time now, the recognition, by a resolution of 30th June, 2015, of Sir Celestine Omehia as a former governor of the state. It is both sad and laughable. It is sad because that ‘recognition’ should never have happened in the first place.
Wike who is a lawyer assented to this resolution.
In the context of Nigeria’s politics of the immature, the motive for, at one advantageous time, ‘recognising’ Omehia and paying him huge sums in undeserved entitlement , only to, at another advantageous time, discovering ‘better facts’ to reverse the decision is open to reasonable conjecture. The extant Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria enjoins in many parts and in various expressions that persons and institutions entrusted with the conduct of state affairs act only in the best interest of the state and for the highest good of the greatest number.
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