Rivers PDP unfazed over claims of Fubara’s possible defection to APC

By Daniel Abia, P/Harcourt

Rivers State section of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, says it remains unfazed implicit the allegation of the imaginable defection of Governor Siminalayi Fubara from the enactment to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

The enactment said arsenic an individual, the politician has each morganatic close to instrumentality immoderate governmental involvement that helium deems acceptable arsenic acold arsenic specified determination oregon enactment would beryllium to the wide involvement of the Rivers radical who elected him arsenic their politician against different interests.

Recall that portion the six months exigency regularisation declared connected March 18 which ended connected September 18 lasted, 1 of the items connected the bid statement Fubara was alleged to person signed successful June, was that helium should defect to the APC, a determination galore saw arsenic the surest mode of capturing Rivers State for President Bola Tinubu’s 2nd word bid successful 2027.

In a telephone speech connected Wednesday, the president of the Rivers State PDP, Dr. Robinson Ewor said immoderate determination the politician takes, “is personal”.

He added that helium was not alert of specified program neither has the politician informed him of his volition to permission the party.

To corroborate the fearfulness of the governor’s imaginable defection, Governor Fubara was sighted with the president of the APC Governors’ Forum and the Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma, ushering the Rivers politician to Tinubu’s bureau connected Monday.

Also striking was the inability of the politician to admit oregon notation the relation of his party, the PDP, successful ensuring that ideology was returned arsenic against the declaration of exigency regularisation successful the authorities by the President during his (Fubara’s) statewide broadcast connected Friday, September 18 erstwhile helium resumed duties aft six months.

No little than 11 PDP governors had dragged the APC authorities to tribunal seeking a reversal of the determination portion different salient Nigerians voiced retired against the declaration of authorities of exigency successful Rivers State, describing it arsenic highly “unconstitutional”.

On the menace by the authorities House of Assembly to probe the erstwhile sole administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Etteh Ibas (retd) connected the fiscal illustration of the authorities successful six months helium held sway, Dr. Ewor said helium could not archer the Assembly what to do, noting that “the sole head cannot relationship to the Rivers people. But helium tin relationship to the House of Assembly. Rivers radical didn’t elite him arsenic their governor.

“Appointment of Ibas was unconstitutional and an enactment of illegality. It was unnecessary. I americium not portion of the probe. But it is the close of the House to probe him. If they privation to probe him, it is their close to bash truthful and I cannot archer them what to do,” helium said.

On whether the bid brokered betwixt Fubara and the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, volition endure, the authorities PDP president said that it would beryllium to the champion involvement of the full Rivers radical for some parties successful the struggle to marque nationalist the presumption of the agreement.

He nevertheless called connected each the actors progressive to guarantee that the contiguous bid effort endures for the wide payment of the authorities and its development.

The station Rivers PDP unfazed implicit claims of Fubara’s imaginable defection to APC appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.