Women Take Rivers Crisis To God In Prayers

Rivers State Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, says he identifies with the women for taking the crisis affecting the state to God for intervention.

Governor Amaechi said this yesterday while addressing a mammoth crowd of women who thronged Government House gate, Port Harcourt, to protest the way the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu, has been handling the political crisis rocking the state.

Represented by his Deputy, Engr. Tele Ikuru, the governor thanked the women “for going into prayers, and after your prayers, coming to Government House to say what you want to tell the government. Let me thank you because you are our mothers, and women are known as the architects of peace. So, when you see women stand up, know that indeed there is problem, and any man born of woman must succumb.

“When women stand up, when women ask for peace, every man must succumb. I want to thank you because you have moved this entire thing to another theater. The theater you have moved it into is the theater of religion. You are asking God to intervene. That is why you went to pray before undertaking this demonstration”.

Noting that “the Bible says, we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities. What you have done now is to move this entire thing to another theater where you call upon God to come and take total control,” Governor Amaechi, who is also chairman, Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) pointed out, saying that “by reason of the fact that you have called upon God, by reason of the fact that you have knelt down and you have cried to God in Heaven, God will hear you”.

He asked them to continue in prayers for the state and go about their lawful duties in a peaceful manner.

“But I ask you, at this moment of challenges, at this moment of difficulties, to be prayerful because this is time for prayers. It is time for fasting, and whatever you ask and pray for, God will do it for you. Once more, let me urge each and everyone of you to conduct yourself in a most peaceful and orderly manner because you have shown you are women of peace”.

Earlier, one of the protesting women, Chief Goodness Ukwu, told the governor that they were in Government House to protest the continued retention of Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu as commissioner of police in the state, pointing out that his recent activities aggravate the already tensed situation in the state.  Also speaking, Mrs. Violet Paul, expressed happiness that they were in Government House to inform the people about what was happening in the state, and appealed to all women to continue to pray for the peace of the state, and avoid any attempt to be lured into any acts of violence.