News Investigators/ The government of Rivers State has dismissed as spurious the news circulating on social media that the governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has decided to shut down NNPCL and all oil companies in the state”.
Rivers government, in a statement by the Commissioner of Information and Communications, Warisenibo Joe Johnson said the news 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.
“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,” it stated.
“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,” it added.
