The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has stated that the Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, has fallen in love with his captor.
The party’s factional National Publicity Secretary, Ini Ememobong, stated this on Thursday during an appearance on Channels Television.
He sympathised with Fubara over his past experience but warned the governor against blaming the wrong party for his travails.
He said, “During the preparations for the convention, I remember a journalist asked Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi state about what the party was doing and he clearly said we need to allow him that he’s been through a lot that they’ve been speaking, so you can’t just throw other people under the bus because of your actions and inactions.
“We sympathise with Siminalayi Fubara. We know that this is a situation where Stockholm syndrome has happened, a captive has fallen in love with a captor and he’s unable to differentiate between where the real problem lies.
“But we frown against that conscious amnesia, where he picks and chooses where the blame should be. He knows where the origin of his problem is. He knows where the continuity of his problem is. When he went to court about the issue of defection, he knew what the truth about it was, and he should be able to say that.
“So again, that deflection by him begins to beg the question whether he is placing the blame where he should rightly be.”