The Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma, has applauded President Muhammadu Buhari on the appointment of new service chiefs in the country.
According to a statement by the Governor, President Buhari’s actions have shown that he is a responsive leader who listens to the yearnings of the people.
While congratulating the newly appointed Service Chiefs, Governor Uzodimma urged them to live up to the expectations of their new portfolios.
Meanwhile, his counterpart in Rivers State, Governor Nyesom Wike has warned the new service chiefs against politicising the state of security by making alliances.
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The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) have lauded the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) for the sacking of the service chiefs and the appointment of new ones.
Wike in a statement by the State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Paulinus Nsirim, though the appointment was belated, it shows the President was listening to calls for their sack.
The Governor said even though the appointments came late, the President should be commended for listening to the voice of the people.
He challenged the new appointees to see their appointments as an opportunity to re-engineer the nation’s security architecture which has suffered a tremendous setback in the last five years.
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has warned the new service chiefs against politicising the state of security by making alliances.
Wike made this known in a statement by the Commissioner for Information, Paulinus Nsirim, saying the President deserves commendation for finally listening to the voice of the people.
” The new service chiefs should not politicise security by aligning with politicians,” he said.
He also advise the new appointees should do better than their predecessors noting that Nigerians who had lost confidence in the former service chiefs were looking up to them
“This is an opportunity to serve the nation and I believe that the service chiefs will be focused and dedicated.”
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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) have lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for sacking the service chiefs and appointing new ones.
Wike in a statement by the State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Paulinus Nsirim, said though the appointment was belated, it shows the President was listening to calls for their sack.
The Governor said the President should be commended for listening to the voice of the people.
He challenged the new appointees to see their appointments as an opportunity to re-engineer the nation’s security architecture which has suffered a tremendous setback in the last five years.
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The Rivers State Government has said Governor Nyesom Wike was not behind the presidential campaign posters seen in some parts of Abuja, the nation’s capital on Monday.
The PUNCH had earlier reported that presidential campaign posters bearing the name and pictures of Wike for the 2023 presidential election surfaced in the federal capital territory, Abuja on Monday morning.
But reacting to the development in a statement, the State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Pastor Paulinus Nsirim, said it was the handiwork of mischief-makers who were threatened by the governor’s rising political profile.