Fubara withdraws reinstatement of Rumuepirikom traditional ruler amid stool dispute

Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has withdrawn the reinstatement of the accepted ruler of Rumuepirikom assemblage successful Obio/Akpor Local Government Area amid a lingering quality implicit the stool.

The governor, successful a connection issued by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Chieftaincy and Community Affairs, Ndukue Patrick, on Thursday, directed the withdrawal of the reinstatement order, missive and certificate earlier issued to His Royal Highness, Eze Anthony Amaezuruike Aaron Owabie, Nye-Nwe-Eli Rumuepirikom.

The connection said Fubara exercised the powers vested successful him nether Section 17 of the Rivers State Traditional Rulers Law No. 4 of 2015 to o.k. the withdrawal.

It directed each parties progressive successful the substance to instrumentality to the presumption quo pending the determination of the lawsuit earlier the court.

The withdrawal, according to the statement, takes contiguous effect.

The determination is connected to the longstanding quality implicit the accepted rulership of Rumuepirikom, the assemblage of erstwhile Rivers State Governor and existent Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike.

The quality became peculiarly contentious during the governmental situation betwixt Fubara and Wike, erstwhile the politician appointed different idiosyncratic arsenic the accepted ruler of the community....