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Gov Wike reverses self, recalls suspended commissioner, AG
Governor, Nyesome Wike has capsized to pressure and recalled the suspended state’s Commissioner Finance, Dr Magnus Kpakol, and the state’s Accountant-General, Abere Dagogo.
Wike made the announcement of the lifting of the penalty on both men while addressing Rivers State public servants and political leaders during a Special Valentine Couples Night organised by his wife, Justice Eberechi Suzzette Nyesom-Wike at the Government House, Port Harcourt.
According to his Special Assistant on Electronic Media, Simeon Nwakaudu, Governor Wike said the suspension was lifted in deference to the interventions by different political leaders and as a show of love during the valentine.
Wike also charged political appointees to differentiate between friendship and governance in the discharge of their respective functions.
Read also: Concerns over Rivers finance as Wike suspends Commissioner, Acct.-General
He said: “Governance is a serious business. It is not friendship. When it comes to governance I won’t know friendship.
“I will lift the suspension on the Finance Commissioner and the Accountant-General, but they must henceforth take their functions seriously. Next time, I will not take into consideration the please of political stakeholders”.
There were earlier reports that the suspended Kpakol had threatened ‘to open ten cans of worms that will lay bare in public glare the nauseating layers upon layers of rot under the heavy weight of which the present Government of Rivers State has been struggling’ if his so-called suspension was not reversed within 48 hours.
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