Ibas calls for greater unity among Rivers people

By Daniel Abia, P/Harcourt

The sole head of Rivers state, Vice Admiral Ibok Ette Ibas, Retired, has called connected the radical of the authorities to nurture the existing bid built by his medication successful the past six months of exigency regularisation successful the state.

Ibas said that the Thanksgiving past Sunday was important and reminded america that without God and the resilience of our people, “this travel of my medication would person been impossible. This nationalist lecture is much than an intelligence exercise. It is successful information a covenant renewal with the radical of Rivers”.

Speaking astatine a public. lecture titled Good Governance and Democratic Dividends, Ibas said “As a nation, our ideology indispensable deliver, and that governance indispensable ever beryllium rooted successful service. Standing earlier you, we consciousness with gratitude and humility; gratitude for the enactment you gave maine arsenic your head and humility that I was called to service successful specified a defining infinitesimal successful the past of this large state.

“When we began this duty connected March 18, 2025, our halfway mandate was to reconstruct bid and stability. By the grace of God and with the practice of each stakeholders, we person travel this far. Most importantly was the peacefully conducted section authorities assembly elections restoring antiauthoritarian governance to the grassroots, the level of authorities closest to the people”.

According him, the exigency regularisation was ne'er a choice, “it was a necessity brought upon america by insecurity, governmental impasse and breakdown of trust. Yet, successful hindsight, it offered america enduring lessons that bid is priceless, without security, different aspiration is possible; that erstwhile governance is weakened, opportunism fills the vacuum, endangering lives and livelihoods and that the indomitable tone of Rivers radical cannot beryllium broken. They endured. They persevered and person remained steadfast.

“The stableness we person restored is the instauration upon which ideology is present rebuilt. Our impermanent talker has done justness to the taxable of the lecture, bully governance and antiauthoritarian dividends. My relation present is to connection my sincere gratitude to my beloved radical of Rivers for each that we person worked hard unneurotic to execute successful the past six months”.

He expressed gratitude to the radical of the authorities for the enactment which “phas been astir humbling and I volition stay eternally grateful to you all. I plead with you to re-educate yourselves to our corporate destiny, 1 ordained by God. I complaint each of america to poace Rivers supra idiosyncratic ambiti0n; to perpetrate to tolerance, forgiveness and reconciliation to consciously enactment astatine gathering spot among each different and to guarantee that the dividends of ideology scope household. Rivers State has been stabilised nether bonzer circumstances, overmuch remains to beryllium done. The foundations person been laid. Let’s physique connected it. Let america beryllium to the satellite that Rivers, the Treasure Base of rhe Nation tin besides beryllium the exemplary of bully governance successful Nigeria”.

The keynote Speaker, Prof Abiodun Amuda_Kannike who spoke connected the taxable : Good Governance and Democratic Dividends, Rivers State Example, harped connected the to entranceway ideology successful the country.

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