Niger Delta rights activist, Annkio Briggs, has declared that the people of Rivers State want Governor Siminalayi Fubara to remain in office beyond 2027.
Naijaonpoint reports that Briggs made this known while reacting to the impeachment saga involving the Rivers State House of Assembly and Fubara.
In an interview with Channels Television on Thursday, Briggs said that the power to decide who governs Rivers State rests with the people, not members of the State House of Assembly.
Briggs maintained that the Rivers lawmakers have no power to tell the people of the state who to vote for in the next election.
She said, “What I’m concerned about is that the people of Rivers State have the final say, and not the members of the State House of Assembly.
“Unfortunately, the Assembly members do not have this knowledge that the power is not theirs to exercise, it is the people of Rivers state that own this power to exercise.
“I want to caution and I’m calling on the federal government, and now I’m going to call on the president, and I’m calling on the political party, APC, that they have received the governor of River State, Fubara into their political party of which the River State House of Assembly members are also members.
“The APC, ought to be very careful. It’s going into election next year. It has to be very careful how it is going about winning this election, how it is going about securing the votes of Niger Delta as a whole, and securing the votes of Rivers people.”