Rivers Crisis: It has nothing to do with political development but the president will not sit and keep quiet – Presidency

The Presidency has emphasized that President Bola Tinubu cannot remain silent when confronted with escalating crises in various states. This statement comes in response to Tinubu’s involvement in political conflicts in Ondo and Rivers State, with some observers suggesting that his actions were undermining the respective state governments.

However, according to his media adviser, Ajuri Ngelale, Tinubu’s interventions are viewed as a positive step. Ngelale asserted that Tinubu will persist in intervening in states grappling with political turmoil if such situations have the potential to impact the nation as a whole.

“That has nothing to do with, of course, political development, destabilization of a particular region or state or subnational entity that could potentially turn into a national conflagration,” he said on Channels Television’s News Night, a pre-recorded show that airs on Mondays.

“If the President sees that, he is not going to sit by as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and fold his hands and keep quiet. I think that is what he has done.

“That is to say if you are the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and your primary objective is to make sure that the Nigerian people are safe; that they are able to operate in an environment that is stable and does not place them in any form of insecurity, then you know that if a political crisis is devolving into something that is generating manmade insecurity, then the president needs to step in and he took that wise decision to step in,” the presidential aide maintained.