Buhari’s Ally Backs Wike On Hotel Demolition

By Chuks Ekpeneru

A top member of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and a confidant of President Muhammadu Buhari, Prince Tony Momoh, has thrown his weight behind recent demolition of two hotels in Rivers State on the order of Governor Nyesom Wike.

Momoh, a former Minister of Information in a chat with Daily Independent, said the governor did no wrong by making a law and taking actions to enforce it.

Wike at the weekend supervised the demolition of Prodent Hotel, Alode in Eleme, and Etemeteh Hotel in Onne for allegedly contravening the executive order barring all hotels in the 23 LGAs of the state from opening for business to check the spread of COVID-19.

Both are believed to be owned by members of the PDP.

The action of the governor has generated divergent views from within and outside the state.

Momoh, a senior lawyer and one of the National leaders of the ruling APC said anyone who flouts laid down rules should be prepared to bear the consequences.

“Laws are made to be obeyed, rules are put forward to be obeyed. In these times when everybody is on edge, a lot of things happen outside due process”.

“But if a governor feels this is what I want in my state and give orders about the consequences of disobedience, taking it that the order he gives is law, anybody who disobeys it will bear the consequences”

“For instance, on the issue of kidnapping and armed robbery, the governor of Anambra and other governors decided that anybody who kidnaps or any house where a kidnapped person Is hidden will be demolished. Wrong as it may seem but that is the way they can address the issues confronting them”.

“I am the wrong person to pronounce judgement on a Chief Executive who is in charge of a state and knows how to govern it and then takes a decision and then enforces it”.

Momoh said the owners can take legal action against the government, “Why not? If they want to go Court, they can sue. But the fact is, why did they break the law? I have no sympathy for anyone who looks at the law in the face and wilfully breaks it.”

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