Outrage Greets Show Of Shame At Rivers House

[Shola Sholaz]

TUESDAY'S show of shame at the Rivers State House of Assembly, Wednesday, elicited outrage in the polity. Most people condemned the mayhem that desecrated what normally should be the hallowed chambers of the assembly, saying that the fracas, processes leading to it and the hard-line stance of the feuding stakeholders portended grave danger to Nigeria's democracy and the 2015 general elections.
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Many of them also described as hasty the House of Representatives' resolution to take over legislative duties in Rivers.
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Agbakoba, Keita express diasppointment Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Mr. Olisa Agbakoba, was so disappointed that he dismissed the shameful incident with one word:
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"Disgrace." Elder statesman and Second Republic politician, Alhaji Lawal Kaita, said "what happened in the Rivers State House of Assembly is very bad. It portends danger for our democracy and Nigeria as a whole."