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<p>A grassroot social political organisation, Concerned Rivers People, CRP has carpeted the Punch Editorial of April 15, 2025, declaring that it went overboard.</p><div class="v1asly4H" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>This was contained in a statement issued and signed by Alex Nwogu, Public Relations Officer of the Concerned Rivers People declaring that:</p>
<p>&#8220;Our attention has been drawn to an editorial in today&#8217;s Punch Newspaper, under normal circumstances, we could have ignored it but the narrative captured in the said editorial are misleading.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s difficult to believe that the Editorial team did not do a thorough investigation that&#8217;s always associated with it before the said publication as structures of governance are set aside under Emergency Rule.</p><div class="Cz5uJvi8" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>&#8220;The Sole Administrator is in place because of the State of Emergency. How is he expected to work with officials of the suspended Administration.</p>
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<p>&#8220;Before then the Supreme Court had voided the Local Government Election that brought the sacked Council Chairmen. The question that the Editorial failed to address is; are those appointed from Akwa Ibom or Abia State?</p>
<p>&#8220;Or better still are they from anywhere close to Lagos or Ogun State? This the editorial adequately failed to thrash out.</p>
<p>&#8220;Again, from what purview is Punch trying to create an impression that there&#8217;s a hidden agenda in the whole arrangement in Rivers State?</p>
<p>&#8220;An Emergency Rule is simply:&#8221;an urgent, unexpected, and usually dangerous situation that poses an immediate risk to health, life, property, or environment and requires immediate action.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Sole Administrator has six months to bring about peace, reconcile aggrieved parties and ensured that residents life and property are secured.</p>
<p>&#8220;In what way has the Sole Administrator violated any of the rules as his first mission in Rivers State is to troubleshoot which he has been doing immediately he assumed office.</p>
<p>&#8220;The job of the Sole Administrator is to go to areas that there are troubles in Rivers and shoot at the trouble to bring about peace.</p>
<p>&#8220;The local government was one heavily troubled area and to bring about peace he appointed fresh administrators to peacefully run the affairs of the councils.</p>
<p>&#8220;Calling for the reinstatement of the suspended governor was the climax smirking that all is not well with the Editorial.</p>
<p>&#8220;Siminalayi Fubara was the purveyor and advocate of all that has transpired in Rivers State calling for his reinstatement barely two months after he was suspended creates a very wrong impression about the Editorial.</p>
<p>&#8220;CRP is demanding that the Punch Editorial should be reviewed and all necessary avenues should be explored to get the right information before jumping to press.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is not a healthy development for journalism that such an editorial should emanate from a reputable newspaper like Punch without weighing it from all angles.</p>
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