Rivers State Lead Representative, Siminalayi Fubara, has communicated his displeasure with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), expressing that the party had failed him and his supporters in the state.
Fubara, who was elected Lead Representative on the platform of the PDP a year ago, tended this statement during a meeting with members of the Senate Committee on Privatization, led by Senator Orji Kalu, at the government house in Port Harcourt.
Among the committee members was Senator Abba Moro, a former Minister of Interior, who Lead Representative Fubara recognized as a leader within his party, the PDP.
The Lead Representative amusingly told the Benue politician, that he would not stick to party protocols, underscoring the fact that the party had let the state down.
He said he and his allies in Rivers State, were currently operating as a movement to defend a majority rules system of government, as opposed to functioning as members of a political party.
He likewise spoke on the political crisis in the state.
The Lead Representative’s position came following the detonation of an explosive by a man in Port Harcourt.
News sources had detailed how the yet-to-be-recognized man, was to blow up the Presidential Hotel, a profoundly evaluated hospitality facility in the state. He was subsequently arrested by the police.
While speaking on the incident, Fubara said the failed attacker had aimed at the facility that was accommodating high-profile individuals, including the members of the Senate committee, to legitimize 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”.
The Rivers State Lead Representative wondered why it seemed that the law was quiet or dormant to take its course over guilty parties, since someone seemed, by all accounts, bigger than the law on the agitation, adding that there was no place in the nation where tenure extension for former local government chairmen had been an issue.
Fubara made clear that he was not fighting anyone rather, he was shielding the state against predators, and safeguarding allies of the interest of Rivers State against those who feel that they own the lives of others.
