Monday, September 22, 2025 - iger Delta rights activist, Ann-Kio Briggs, has said that the people of Rivers State deserve to know the terms of agreement between Governor Siminilayi Fubara and President Bola Tinubu before the six-month emergency rule ended in the state.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, Briggs
argued that the people of the state had the right to know what was agreed
behind closed doors, warning that silence could erode the governor’s
credibility.
“We are the people who have paid the greatest price in all
of these things, and to not be aware of the decision which will affect us, and
therefore, we can’t gauge the extent to which these decisions will affect us,
it becomes very difficult to flow with the politicians,” she said.
She warned that withholding details of the pact was
“unacceptable” to people from Rivers State.
“It’s just an impossible situation where we have found
ourselves. We don’t know what the President has insisted on, we don’t know what
was agreed upon, and where that leads the people of Rivers State. So, we need
to know what was agreed on,” she said.
Briggs also joined calls for Rear Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas
(retd.), who served as the state’s sole administrator during the emergency
period, to account for public funds spent under his watch.
“The state funds spent during the emergency rule belonged to
the people of the state and should be accounted for,” she said.
Fubara, his deputy Ngozi Odu, and members of the state
assembly were suspended on March 18, 2025, following the declaration of
emergency rule over political instability. Fubara resumed office on
September 17, 2025, after the emergency rule was lifted by President Tinubu.
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