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The Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has revealed that plans are underway to set up a judicial panel of inquiry to investigate how the affairs of governance were steered by the immediate past administration, led by Nyesom Wike.
He spoke at the Government House in Port Harcourt, during the swearing-in of Iboroma as the new attorney general of the state.
The post of attorney general was previously occupied by Prof Zacchaeus Adangor (SAN), a Wike’s loyalist, who resigned from the cabinet after Fubara redeployed him from the office of the attorney general to another ministry.
Fubara, during the swearing-in, said he was bringing in Iboroma as the new attorney general at a critical time when there were lots of legal matters on ground to address.
He said, “My brother, Dagogo Iboroma, you are going to be the brand new attorney general of our dear state. The Secretary to State Government gave him his letter. He is the attorney general.
“We are bringing you at this very critical time because a lot of issues surround us. We believe that you are not going to be the one that when they send service to you, you go and file ‘nolle prosequi’ or you go and file one thing that would kill us here.
“Let me also say this, you have a big task. In the local parlance, they say the jungle has matured. We will be setting up a judicial panel of inquiry to investigate the affairs of governance. So, brace up, I am not going back on it.
“Please, defend us. We know that you are going to defend us because your record is clean. You are a gentleman and peaceful. You are not a noise maker. People like you are endowed, and they have the fear of God.”
Fubara said he thought the political crisis he considered as a problem within a family would have been resolved, but regretted that there had been no headway.”
