Rivers State Government has rubbished report in the media space about shutting down the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL) facility and all oil companies in the state.
The state government via a press rebuttal issued by the commissioner for information and communications, Warisenibo Joe Johnson described the report as false and propaganda authored by enemies of the state.
The report insinuated that the Rivers state government moved against the activities of all oil companies in the state in response to a court ruling mandating the Federal Government to withhold the state’s allocation.
“The report was not only false, but a concocted propaganda from the imagination of the author and enemies of the State. The story was also circulated by an inconsequential and unverified medium,” the rebuttal read in part.
“Governor Siminalayi Fubara is committed to the rule of law and does not rely on unconventional and crude approaches to respond to matters of governance.
“We therefore enjoin Rivers people and well-meaning Nigerians to discountenance the spurious and fake report as Governor Fubara at no time contemplated and/or directed such needless order of shutting down the economy for any reason,” the statement concluded.
