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Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara has said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has failed the state.
Fubara claimed that the party leadership didn't play its role since the emergence of the political crisis in the state.
The governor spoke while hosting a delegation of the Senate Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation, led by its Chairman, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, to Government House in Port Harcourt.
Fubara said, "The state is currently relying on what it can do based on truth instead of party politics. The state will no longer be held back by party affiliation, but will stand firm on its own soil to defend democracy.
“In our state today, we are no longer doing party. We are doing a movement, so you don’t blame me if I don’t go to the side of the party too much.
“The party has failed us here, so what we are doing here is to stand with our two legs on the soil of Rivers State, so that we can defend democracy.”
Recall that In April, 60 PDP lawmakers in the House of Representatives demanded the resignation of the party’s acting National Chairman, Umar Damagum, for failing to address the political crisis in Rivers between Fubara and his estranged godfather, Nyesom Wike.
The 60 lawmakers led by the PDP member representing Ideato North/Ideato South Federal Constituency, Imo State, Ikenga Ugochinyere, accused Damagum of, among others, siding with Wike and working for the All Progressives Congress (APC), a party that gave Wike the FCT ministerial appointment.
