Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has directed the just inaugurated Commissioner of Justice and Attorney-General of the State to write a strong-worded protest letter to the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) over what the governor called harassment of the state’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Siminialaye Fubara.
Wike gave the directive at the Executive Chamber of Government House, Port Harcourt, after swearing in three new commissioners, including Zacchaeus Adangor, attorney-general and commissioner for Justice.
The governor said EFCC officials recently attempted to harass and intimidate Fubara, who before his emergence as the PDP governorship candidate, had served as the Accountant General of Rivers State. The EFCC had published Fubara’s name on a wanted list for N117bn, but Wike said the EFCC needed to know that the era of impunity and flagrant disobedience to the rule of law is gone and his administration would not accept such behaviour.
He threatened to charge the EFCC for contempt, explaining that before now, the Rivers State government had got a subsisting court judgment against the EFCC that it cannot investigate the state finances or its officers and also, that there was another judgment against EFCC by the PDP governorship candidate to enforce his fundamental rights, which he said has not been set aside.
Governor Wike noted that nobody will accept the use of EFCC at such political period to intimidate persons in order to achieve their skewed political goals.
He further directed the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice to commence diligent prosecution of the illegal financial dealings of the former Rivers State governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, Tonye Cole, Sahara Energy and others over the sale of state assets.
