Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara has declared his readiness to set up a judicial panel of inquiry to investigate the administration of his predecessor and Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike.

Fubara served as the Accountant General of Rivers State in Wike’s administration.

He however vowed to probe the former governor’s regime while swearing in Dagogo Iboroma (SAN) as the Rivers State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice at Government House in Port Harcourt, the state capital, on Monday, May 13, 2024.

Iboroma replaced former Attorney General Zachaeus Adangor, an ally of Wike, who resigned his appointment in April after he was redeployed to the Ministry of Special Duties.

Rivers State has since been thrown into a political crisis after lawmakers loyal to Wike initiated a plot to impeach Fubara as the governor of the state.

Speaking on Monday, Governor Fubara said he would set up a judicial panel of inquiry soon to investigate how the affairs of governance were conducted in Rivers State before he assumed office.

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Fubara said: “So, my brother, Dagogo Iboroma, you are going to be the brand new Attorney-General of our dear state. SSG, give him his letter; he is the Attorney-General.

“Why are we bringing you at this very critical time? We have a lot of issues around 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. 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.”

The governor further reiterated that though he thought the political crisis he considered as a problem within a family would have been resolved, he regretted that there had been no headway out of it.

Fubara said though it was unfortunate, his administration has moved forward because there is now a well-constituted State House of Assembly to discharge legislative duties, and a seasoned lawyer appointed as the Attorney-General of the state.

The Star