By Abiola Olawale
Barely six hours after Prof. Zacchaeus Adangor resigned his position as the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice of Rivers State, another commissioner, Isaac Kamalu, announced his exit from the administration of Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
Mr Kamalu, who served as Commissioner for Budget and Economy under the administration of former Governor Nyesom Wike, disclosed this on Tuesday, April 23, in a letter to Governor Fubura and the Secretary to the State Government, Dr. Tammy Danagogo.
In the letter, Kamalu accused Fubara of lying about the internally-generated revenue of Rivers State.
“In view of the above, I find it difficult to accept the redeployment; I do not accept it. I reject it and convey my immediate resignation as Commissioner and Member of the River State Executive Council with effect from the date of this letter,” Kamalu said.
The New Diplomat reports that the resignation of Kamalu and Adangor came after Fubara had announced their redeployment.
While Kamalu was redeployed to the Employment Generation and Economic Empowerment Ministry, Adangor was redeployed to the Ministry of Special Duties (Governor’s Office).
The two commissioners were part of the commissioners who resigned from their positions at the onset of the crisis between Governor Fubara and the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, but were recalled to their offices following the intervention of President Bola Tinubu.
Fubara, described as Wike’s political godson, has parted ways with the minister.
The duo have been at loggerheads over reported battle for the soul of the oil-rich state.
The crisis took a dramatic turn when 27 lawmakers, believed to be Wike’s loyalists, defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC)
Fubara, who appeared ready to damn the consequences, wasted no time in demolishing the State House of Assembly complex, to prevent the lawmakers from their threats to impeach him.
Following the escalating crisis, President Tinubu intervened, initiating a peace deal between Wike and Fubara, and things relatively died down until lately, culminating in the resignation of the two commissioners.
