A Methodist Bishop, Dr. Sunday Onuoha, has warned that the crisis rocking Rivers State might snowball into a national crisis if nothing is done urgently to arrest it.
Since last Saturday when Rivers held the local government elections, the state has not known peace. Violence erupted on election day, while offices in three local governments areas were set ablaze on Sunday.
In the election, the Action People’s Party (APP) won 22 local government areas, with the Action Alliance taking the last seat.
Bishop Onuoha, who spoke over the political rift between Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State and his estranged godfather and FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, called on men and women of conscience from across the country to rise up and defend the country’s democracy.
He urged elder statesmen in the country to call a spade a spade by cautioning those who are fueling the political instability in Rivers State, maintaining that if not checked, something terrible might happen.
Governor Fubara and Wike had been locked in a supremacy battle over control of Rivers politics, which started a few months after the inauguaration of the former.
The crisis had led to resignations of appointment by some members of Fubara’s cabinet, who are loyal to Wike.
