Africa Business Radio

Rivers State Governor, Mr Nyesom Wike, says that the state was not at war with the federal government or any of its agencies. The clarification followed insinuations in some quarters about hostility between the two tiers of government in the wake of the legal dispute over who is authorised to collect Value Added Tax in the state.The governor says there is no desire or any intention of the Rivers State government to fight the federal government, but in a federal system, the states are not houseboys of the federal government.