ADC condemns Ikwerre council’s ban on public gatherings

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) successful Rivers State has criticised the determination by the Chairman of Ikwerre Local Government Area, Charles Wobodo, to prohibition each nationalist events successful the council, describing the directive arsenic unconstitutional and a menace to antiauthoritarian rights.

The party’s Publicity Secretary successful the state, Barr. Chizy Enyi, made the presumption known successful a connection issued successful Port Harcourt.

Wobodo had announced the prohibition successful a broadcast connected Saturday, saying the measurement had go indispensable due to the fact that of repeated information challenges successful the section authorities area.

Reacting, the ADC said that though it recognised the information concerns successful Ikwerre, prohibiting nationalist gatherings was not the close solution.

“The African Democratic Congress, Rivers State Chapter, has noted with sedate interest the directive issued by the Executive Chairman of Ikwerre Local Government purporting to prohibit each gatherings wrong the Local Government Area but with his idiosyncratic written approval,” Enyi said.

He noted that the enactment sympathised with families who had mislaid loved ones successful caller attacks and supported la...