RIVERS State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has expressed disappointment with his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), saying it has failed him and his supporters in the state; hence they are now operating as a movement to defend democracy, rather than functioning as members of a political party.
Fubara, who was elected governor on the platform of the PDP a little over one year ago, stated this during a meeting with members of the Senate Committee on Privatisation, led by Senator Orji Kalu, at the Government House, Port Harcourt on Wednesday, June 26.
Among the committee members was Senator Abba Moro, a former Minister of Interior, whom the governor acknowledged as a leader within his party, whom he told that he would not adhere to party protocols, PDP having let the state down in the ongoing political crisis.
Fubara’s position has been strengthened by the recent detonation of an explosive in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, June 25, very close to the Presidential Hotel where the senators were lodging by a yet-to-be identified person, who is already receiving treatment in a hospital, but has now been arrested by the Police.
Speaking on the incident on Wednesday, June 26, Fubara alleged that the attacker had targeted the hotel to justify the call for the imposition of a state of emergency in the state, noting: “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, 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 governor wondered why it seemed that the law was silent or inactive to take its course over offenders, reckoning that somebody appeared to be bigger than the law on the agitation, insisting there was nowhere in the country where tenure elongation for former local government chairmen had been an issue.
He stated that he was not fighting anybody, but defending the state against predators and protecting supporters of the interest of Rivers State against those who feel that they own the lives of others.
