Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara has officially left the People’s Democratic Party to join the ruling All Progressives Congress.
Announcing his defection on Tuesday evening, Fubara said the move was in reciprocity for the overwhelming support the state has received from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The defection ends months of speculation about whether the governor would join the APC, which many believed was part of a peace agreement between him and the President.
Fubara’s defection has sent shockwaves across the country’s landscape. representing a seismic shift in the political dynamics of Rivers State which has been a stronghold of the PDP in the South-South geopolitical zone.
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Fubara’s defection comes against the backdrop of months of intense political crisis in Rivers State, stemming from a bitter rift between him and his predecessor, Nyesom Wike, his political godfather who currently serves as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory.
Credible News recalls that Governor Fubara recently acknowledged that his continued tenure as governor was made possible by the “special favour” of President Bola Tinubu.
At the Rivers State University convocation ceremony, Fubara stated: “It is only by the special grace of God, the special favour from Mr President, that we are standing here still as the ones presiding over the affairs of Rivers State”.
Just last Friday, 16 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly, led by Speaker Martin Amaewhule, had already defected from the PDP to the APC. The decampee lawmakers are loyal to former Governor Wike, creating a pattern of mass defections from the PDP in Rivers State.
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