According to the state, any attempt by the federal Government to corrupt the standard already set by the state will be resisted.
This came as plans by the federal ministry of education to rehabilitate some state-owned secondary schools in the state were revealed.
The Minister of State for Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, had last Friday announced plans by the Federal Government to rehabilitate select schools in Rivers State, his home state.
He had, while laying the foundation stone for the construction of a Federal Junior Model Secondary School at Ogu, in Ogu/Bolo Local Government Area of the state, stated that the federal government would in the coming months intervene to uplift the physical structures of some schools in the state.
He named the schools to be rehabilitated to include Community Secondary School, Ubima (Governor Chibuike Amaechi's hometown) and St. Aquinas Secondary School, Elele both in Ikwerreland and Birabi Memorial Secondary School, Bori in Ogoniland.