The Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has defended his decision to join the All Progressives Congress (APC), saying the move is in the interest and progress of Rivers State.
The governor spoke on Friday at the Government House in Port Harcourt while receiving his APC membership card from the state party chairman, Tony Okocha.
Fubara reiterated that his switch to the APC was driven by what he believes will benefit the state’s development.
The governor also expressed appreciation for President Bola Tinubu’s role in ensuring he remained in office.
He stated, “Let me thank my chairman for taking up this. Like him, he said it’s a spiritual assignment. I want to thank you for accepting to embark on this spiritual assignment.
“It is a spiritual assignment because if you had listened to me when I took this decision, it was for the safety, protection, progress, and development of our dear state. We can’t be doing our own here, and we will be going on a different course with the federal government, the ruling party.
“There is every reason to support Mr President. If not for any other thing, as a person, I know the sacrifice he has made to ensure that we still stand as a government.
“So I took this decision as my own return favour, my own clearing the bush to ensure that his reelection come 2027 will be easy, smooth in this state. Now that we are all in one party, because I believe that we have always been with him, but maybe from different flats.
“We are now inside one flat. The job is easy to continue what we have promised, Mr President. Let me thank the national executive, the state Chairman who is representing the National Chairman. I want to assure you, you can take my message back to him.
“We will do everything to keep APC as the main and active progressive party in Rivers State. We are not only going to stop there, but it is my responsibility from this minute to ensure that the party is properly taken care of.
“I will assure you here that every need of the executive, every need of the party in this state, becomes my responsibility.”
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