Ibrahim Manga, acting national publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says Siminalayi Fubara, governor of Rivers, rejected the offer to control the state’s political structure.
Speaking with the Nigerian Tribune on Sunday, Manga
recounted that the PDP’s national working committee (NWC) approached Fubara to
nominate a candidate to fill the vacant position of the party’s chairmanship in
Rivers.
He said Fubara turned down the opportunity to nominate
someone for the position, insisting that Nyesom Wike, his predecessor, should
choose a nominee.
Fubara and Wike, minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), have been at loggerheads over control of the state’s political structure.
The conflict has led to a polarisation of the Rivers state
house of assembly.
The PDD spokesperson said the party had done everything to
support Fubara, noting that the governor failed to rally the national working
committee (NWC) and fellow governors to his side.
“The kind of opportunity given to Fubara by this party is
the sort that you never imagine exists from any political party to any of its
members, not a governor, not a president,” Manga said.
“It is the sort that
you would not believe any member will enjoy, any person no matter his status,
whether in former president.
“If I start talking now, I’ll dig out what we have been
keeping in the cooler—the opportunities, the chances, the repeated chances
given to this governor for him to take the leadership and take control of the
structure.
“He was the first person that came to meet this NWC when
they requested the replacement of the state’s chairman of the PDP.
“He said, ‘No, no, no’, nobody should call him that they
should call ‘oga in Abuja; let oga give the person; anyone oga’ gives he is
comfortable.
“This was the
beginning of the whole of this problem. He was the one who said he cannot take
decisions when Nyesom Wike is still alive.
“That was before the relationship went sour. So, at what
point did you now stop recognising him as your boss, that you start taking all
of those decisions?”
‘FUBARA, BALA
MOHAMMED MAY FACE DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS’
The PDP spokesman hinted that Fubara and Bala Mohammed, the
governor of Bauchi, may face disciplinary actions for alleged anti-party
activities in the Rivers LGA elections.
“That is a clear
anti-party on the part of the governor, and we will wait for him with that
himself,” Manga said.
“The governor that went to identify with him during the
inauguration of the elected officials himself, the chairman of the governors’
forum, will be accused of anti-party.
“And this is why we
are always careful to, you know, apply the sledgehammer on the heads of all of
those persons accused of identifying with this thing called anti-party.
“Because you would soon realise that you have finished all
the members of the party, and you are leaving nobody behind. Everybody has one
action or the other that can constitute what is anti-party in the face of law.
“So, in the running
party…because he went there, they were inaugurated, none of them was PDP local
government chairman, none of the 21 of them.
“But the chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum went there,
gave his blessing for a sitting PDP governor to inaugurate the opposition
party, and then they were all joyful and in a festive mood.
“How will you now say
you are serving PDP with this action alone?”
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