*PDP Intensifies Consultations With Stakeholders On Caretaker Committee Crisis
THE Rivers State attorney general and commissioner for Justice, Zacchaeus Adangor, has rejected his redeployment as commissioner for Special Duties and tendered his resignation from the state executive council.
Recall that Adangor had, on December 14, last year, resigned his position as commissioner for Justice at the peak of the face-off between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his political godfather, predecessor and current Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike.
Zacchaeus and other commissioners loyal to Wike, who resigned due to the political crisis, however, returned to the government after being reconfirmed by the state House of Assembly in accordance to an agreement between the two gladiators at Aso Rock Villa, Abuja, presided over by President Bola Tinubu.
Fubara, earlier in the week, reshuffled his cabinet and redeployed Adangor as the commissioner for Special Duties (Governor’s Office).
In a letter sighted by DAILY POST and addressed to the Secretary to the Rivers State government, Zacchaeus rejected his new office.
Adangor, a strong ally of Wike, in his resignation letter, accused Governor Fubara of interfering with the performance of his duties as Attorney General of the state.
Fubara, in a statement on Tuesday, April 23, by the Secretary to the Rivers State Government (SSG), Dr. Tammy Danagogo, redeployed Adangor and the commissioners for Finance, Isaac Kamalu, to the Ministry of Employment Generation and Economic Empowerment, even as the political crisis rocking the state festers.
The governor asked them to immediately hand over to their respective permanent secretaries,as the deployment took immediate effect, saying all handover processes must be completed immediately.
Meanwhile, the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said that it would intensify consultations with the party’s governors’ forum, among other stakeholders, to find political solutions to its leadership crisis in the state.
In a statement issued by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, in Abuja, after the its meeting on Tuesday, April 23, said after an extensive deliberation, the NWC acknowledged the existence of an ex-parte order issued by the Federal High Court, Abuja, restraining it from further action with respect to the status of the Rivers State Caretaker Committee List as published.
“However, while the Rivers State caretaker committee list, as published, stands, in compliance with the Order of the court, the NWC notes the concerted intervention and efforts of various organs of the party, particularly the PDP Governors’ Forum, to finding a political solution to the issue of the River Caretaker Committee.
“The NWC, therefore, resolved to, in conjunction with the PDP, intensify action in its continued consultation to resolving the issues of the Rivers State PDP chapter amicably.”
