Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, at the swearing in of the 23 new caretaker chairmen in Port Harcourt on June 19, 2024.
The Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has expressed his disappointment with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), stating that the party had failed him and his supporters in the state.
Fubara, who was elected governor on the platform of the PDP a year ago, 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.
Among the committee members was Senator Abba Moro, a former Minister of Interior, whom Governor Fubara acknowledged as a leader within his party, the PDP.
The governor amusingly told the Benue politician, 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.
He also spoke on the political crisis in the state.
The governor’s stance came following the detonation of an explosive by a man in Port Harcourt on Tuesday.
Channels Television had reported how the yet-to-be-identified man, was to blow up the Presidential Hotel, a highly-rated hospitality facility in the state. He was later arrested by the police.
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