Youths in the three local government areas of the Kalabari ethnic group have occupied their council secretariats to demand the vacation of the council chairmen from office.
The local government areas are Degema, Asari-Toru and Akuku-Toru.
Amateur videos obtained by Newsmen on Monday showed that some of the youths mobilised to block the entrance to the council complexes and requested traders within the premises to leave.
Meanwhile, a former Niger Delta agitator, Asari Dokubo who is from the ethnic group is advising elected chairmen of the 23 local government areas in Rivers State to quietly leave office by midnight on Monday as their three-year tenure expires.
He said despite arguments from the chairmen, they must leave office to avoid creating fundamental problems in the state. Asari stressed the importance of adhering to the stipulated tenure limits in the Local Government Law of 2018 to maintain order and legality.
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