{"id":178914,"date":"2025-09-15T09:17:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T08:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/no-political-victory-is-worth-rivers-blood-ibas"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:22:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:22:34","slug":"no-political-victory-is-worth-rivers-blood-ibas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-political-victory-is-worth-rivers-blood-ibas","title":{"rendered":"No Political Victory Is Worth Rivers Blood Ibas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The outgoing Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Ibok-Ete Ibas, has called the residents to put the state above self-interest, stating that no political victory is worth blood of any Rivers citizen.<\/p>\n<p>Ibas made the appeal on Sunday during an interdenominational thanksgiving service at the Ecumenical Centre, Port Harcourt, the capital city, to mark the state\u2019s transition back to democratic governance after the local council elections.<\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu appointed the Sole Administrator in March to preside over the state for six months after the declaration of emergency rule.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ibas, Rivers state was torn by divisions, instability and broken trust before the intervention of the emergency rule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolitical actors must sheath their swords, because no political victory or personal gain is worth the blood of any Rivers citizen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe progress and prosperity of Rivers state must be placed above personal or partisan interest; politics must never be an excuse to destroy the very state we are called to serve,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The outgoing Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Ibok-Ete Ibas, has called the residents to put the state above self-interest, stating that no political victory is worth blood of any Rivers citizen. Ibas made the appeal on Sunday during an interdenominational thanksgiving service at the Ecumenical Centre, Port Harcourt, the capital city, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":178913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[16417,254,421],"class_list":["post-178914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-ibas","tag-nigeria","tag-rivers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>No Political Victory Is Worth Rivers Blood Ibas - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The outgoing Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Ibok-Ete Ibas, has called the residents to put the state above self-int ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-political-victory-is-worth-rivers-blood-ibas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No Political Victory Is Worth Rivers Blood Ibas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The outgoing Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Ibok-Ete Ibas, has called the residents to put the state above self-int ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-political-victory-is-worth-rivers-blood-ibas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-15T08:17:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-15T09:22:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1757915728.299536.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1134\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-political-victory-is-worth-rivers-blood-ibas#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-political-victory-is-worth-rivers-blood-ibas\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"No Political Victory Is Worth Rivers Blood Ibas\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-15T08:17:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-15T09:22:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-political-victory-is-worth-rivers-blood-ibas\"},\"wordCount\":183,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-political-victory-is-worth-rivers-blood-ibas#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1757915728.299536.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Ibas\",\"Nigeria\",\"Rivers\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-political-victory-is-worth-rivers-blood-ibas#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-political-victory-is-worth-rivers-blood-ibas\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-political-victory-is-worth-rivers-blood-ibas\",\"name\":\"No Political Victory Is Worth Rivers Blood Ibas - 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