The People’s Democratic Party has alleged that the Rivers State Governor, Sim Fubara turned down the opportunity to nominate Chairman of the party in the State when contacted.
The new acting factional, National Publicity Secretary of the party, Ibrahim Abdulahi, made this known in a statement on Sunday.
According to him, when a vacancy existed for the post of the Rivers State chapter chairman of the party, the NWC contacted Fubara to forward a nominee but he turned down the chance on the grounds that the minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, should provide the nominee.
He said,“The kind of opportunity given to Fubara by this party is the sort that you never imagine exist from any political party to any of its members, not a governor, not a president.
“It is the sort that you would not believe any member will enjoy, any person no matter his status, whether in former president, because if I start now talking, 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 for the replacement of the state’s chairman of the PDP. He said no 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.
See, why we don’t need to delve too much into the back and forth of a River State, what is important is that at the point that we have reached now, the summary of it all is that a governor with a state like Rivers, it was the same state Wike occupied that he was able to give PDP the required opposition it confronted the Buhari-led federal government for eight years.
“Fubara is sitting on that same saddle now and yet, cannot be able to rally his colleagues, governors behind him. He cannot be able to hold the National Working Committee to identify with him just because his predecessor is a minister in Abuja.
