Siminalayi Fubara, governor of Rivers, says he will not govern the state from a position of subservience or weakness.

Fubara made the remarks on Saturday, during a condolence visit to the Ubima, Ikwerre LGA country home of Celestine Omehia, a former governor of the state.

Omehia was laying Cecilia Omehia, his mother, to rest.

“I have come here with very few respected elders of the state, to come and support you and say to you that we sorrow with you,” Fubara said.

“The most important thing is to show our concern and love. Any human being who shows enmity to death, that person is not even normal.

“We also rejoice with you for a life lived well to fulfilment by Mama. We wish Mama a safe journey. Let her stay well where she has gone.”

He said politics of bitterness will impede the development of the state and that “it is only in unity that we can move our state forward”.

“Anybody who claims to love this state should not be party to anything, directly or indirectly that will bring us backwards. We will continue to support every course that will advance the interests of our dear Rivers state,” he added.

“And I am happy to say, and I’ve said it over and again, it doesn’t matter the number of people that are standing with me, I will stand on that side of truth.

“I will not, I repeat, I will not govern our dear state on my knees. If that was the purpose, I will not do that.”

Fubara has been locked in a battle for the control of the political structure of Rivers with Nyesom Wike, his predecessor and minister of the federal capital territory (FCT).

The governor recently redeployed some members of his cabinet who are loyal to Wike.

Olatosho Oshoffa, son of the Founder, Celestial Church of Christ, Worldwide, Bilewu Oshoffa, has revealed how the late spiritual leader managed his 13 wives and 53 children during his lifetime.

The cleric, popularly known as Tosho, is the shepherd of CCC International Headquarters, Ketu, Lagos.

Tosho is the 10th son and the 20th child of the late CCC founder.

He stressed the love among the family members, including the wives and many children while noting that their late father used to tell them, “Never say you are a son or daughter to any of my wives. But tell yourself, you are a son of Oshoffa.”

Unlike it’s seen in some polygamous families where children see themselves from different mothers, Tosho said his father used the “girdle of love to tie us together. So we don’t see ourselves as children of our various mothers but as children of Oshoffa.”

Tosho stated that the children related well while their father was alive, and even after his demise.

“And that is the same way we related when he (Oshoffa) was still in this world and has been doing after his demise. Even as of today, the remaining Oshoffa wives that were younger to my mother, I still refer to them as my mother, because of the love that our father (Oshoffa) has used to bind us together. So, we all remain one as SBJ Oshoffa children,” he said.

The shepherd of the CCC International Headquarters in the Ketu area of Lagos noted that the multitude of children in the family had never been a problem.

He said, “We, the children know ourselves, and up till now, I can tell you that we know the number of wives that gave birth to this number of children for my father. So, we know ourselves and relate very well.

“There is one love in the family, no matter how many we are. The number of children is 53, but we are all in one love and one accord.”

Tosho equally quelled the controversy that Oshoffa had more than 53 children, saying, “He left behind 13 wives and 53 children. Many people have said he had 100 children and so on. But no.”

The Police at the Maroko division, Lekki, of the Lagos State Police Command, Lagos have arrested a businesswoman, Vivian Nwachukwu, 34, and charged her before a Lagos Magistrates’ court for allegedly slapping a police officer, Inspector Yekini Momodu and pushing him down during an altercation.

Police said that the defendant also slapped one Mufutau Ayodele on his cheek and gave him a fist blow on his mouth which caused him harm with blood gushing out.

Police alleged that the defendant also damaged Ayodele’s Infinix Hot 12 Promax phone valued at N100,000.

Police further alleged that while the incident was going on, concerned residents in the area quickly sent a distress call to the Division Police Officer, DPO in charge of Maroko Division, Lekki, who swiftly dispatched his men to the scene to arrest the defendant and restore order.

After an investigation by Inspector Elizabeth Ekanem, the defendant was charged before the Igbosere Magistrates’ Court sitting at the Ebute Metta Magistrates’ Court, Lagos on a four-count charge bordering on assault occasioning harm and malicious damage.

Police prosecuting counsel, ASP Isaac Ameru, told the court in the charge marked T/17/2024 that the defendant and one other still at large committed the offence on 14 April 2024 at 5 Dideolu Estate, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Ameru told the court that the defendant and one other took the law into their own hands and allegedly slapped a police officer and another complainant and inflicted injury on them for unjustifiable reasons.

He said the offences committed were punishable under Sections 411, 134, 173 and 350 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges and Magistrate Emeka Opara granted her N50,000 bail with one surety in like sum.

Opara adjourned the case till 10 May 2024 for mention and ordered that the defendant be detained at Kirikiri Correctional Facility till she perfected the bail.