Embattled Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has expressed anger and disappointment with the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), revealing that the party has abandoned him and his supporters in his battle against ex-governor Nyesom Wike.
Fubara made this statement during a meeting with members of the Senate Committee on Privatisation, led by Senator Orji Kalu, at the government house in Port Harcourt on Wednesday.
The governor complained that he would not adhere to party protocols, noting that the party had let the state down.
He said he and his supporters in Rivers State, were now operating as a movement to defend democracy, rather than functioning as members of a political party.
The governor’s stance came following the detonation of an explosive by a man in Port Harcourt on Tuesday. While speaking on the incident on Wednesday, Fubara said the failed attacker had targeted the facility that was accommodating high-profile individuals, including the members of the Senate committee, to justify the call for the imposition of 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”.
