Fubara indicated his departure from party protocols, criticizing the party’s performance in the state.
By Nkiruka Aduba
Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State expressed disappointment with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), stating that the party had let down him and his supporters in the state. Elected on the PDP platform a year ago, Fubara made these remarks during a meeting with the Senate Committee on Privatisation, led by Senator Orji Kalu, at the Port Harcourt government house on Wednesday.
Among the committee members was Senator Abba Moro, a former Minister of Interior, whom Governor Fubara recognized as a leader in the PDP. In a somewhat lighthearted exchange with the Benue politician, Fubara indicated his departure from party protocols, criticizing the party’s performance in the state.
Fubara emphasized that he and his supporters in Rivers State were now operating as a democracy defense movement rather than as loyal members of a political party. He also addressed the political unrest in the state, which coincided with an incident involving the attempted detonation of an explosive at the Presidential Hotel in Port Harcourt the previous day.
The failed attacker had reportedly targeted the hotel where high-profile individuals, including members of the Senate committee, were staying, possibly to provoke calls for a state of emergency in the state.
He said, “The idea was that as you heard the state of emergency, it will be so that by the time they finish when you return to have your sitting tomorrow (Thursday), the debate will be from somebody from this state who called you people to tell you not to come. He will now raise the issue of a state of emergency, and say, after all, distinguished colleagues saw it happen while you were in Rivers State, that you saw what happened.
“But you see, when you are with God, even your own child who is planning evil, will go and tell somebody that God is with this man because he is clean, this is what my father is planning. That is what is keeping us in this State”.
The Rivers State governor questioned why it seemed that the law remained silent or inactive regarding offenders, suggesting that certain individuals appeared to be above the law concerning the agitation. He noted that tenure elongation for former local government chairmen had never been an issue anywhere else in the country.
Fubara clarified that he was not in conflict with anyone but was defending the state against predators and protecting the interests of Rivers State supporters from those who believe they control others’ lives.
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