Ibinabo Fiberesima and Hilda Dokubo Rage about Situation in Rivers (VIDEO)

Yesterday, the Nigerian president Bola Tinubu declared Rivers State a state of emergency. This is following months-long contention between the sitting governor of the state Gov. Siminalayi Fubara and the former governor of the state Nyesom Wike. The declaration of a state of emergency yesterday came as a shock to many, and people have been making their voices heard about it.

Speaking today about the decision and the happenings in the state, Nollywood actress Ibinabo Fiberesima is crying out about the situation asking that the people of Rivers State be left in peace seeing that the state was in no way bad enough to be declared a state of emergency before the president declared it so. Ibanibo Fiberesima said:

IBINABO FIBERESIMA: We found peace finally. And then today, you come out and you see army people driving around, like there's something going on that is wrong. This is not right. This is not right. We are at peace. Let our children, let our families be at peace. Let people go to work in peace. All these army people driving about, this is not right. This is not right. This is not right. Our governor is peaceful. We love him. Leave us in peace. What is all this?

Also speaking about the situation is another Nollywood actress Hilda Dokubo who decries the situation saying:

HILDA DOKUBO: Now you have crippled people, and all we see is wen wen wen, police cars. What for? Because of one man. I will say it over and over and over. What’s going on in Rivers State is not Siminalayi Fubara. What’s going on in Rivers State is a combat for the economic soul of Rivers State. Somebody wants to grab the economic soul of Rivers State. The soul of Rivers State—for twenty-four years—they kept milking us. That was how our money was flying all over our heads. It is here today, it is here tomorrow, it is funding all kinds of foolishness.

This is the first time that civil servants have been paid the thirteenth month. Every Christmas, for two years, civil servants get paid. Civil servants have been paid all their salaries. For the first time, there are roads connecting the riverine communities. It has never happened. They told us—they lied to us. They told us our terrain was too bad. Now we know our terrain is not bad. Now we know.

He told us that we can have elections here, and it can be any way—but no war, no bloodshed, no gun shooting—and it happened here. And it happened here. Today, you have told everybody to go. He says yes. You said, go and resubmit a budget. He writes. He says, come. Come and choose with me a befitting place that you want so that I can present this budget. You made it impossible for him. He wrote, “I am coming to you.” You locked him out. He wrote again to say, “I will still come again,” and you wrote to him as a reply that—for insubordination or whatever. And then the next thing you do is this.

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