Rivers: Fubara’s withdrawal was voluntary, Wike not the cause — Yilwatda

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Prof Nentawe Yilwatda, has insisted that Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State withdrew from the party’s governorship primaries voluntarily.

Speaking during an interrogation connected Channels Television’s Politics Today, Yilwatda noted that Fubara was neither disqualified nor forced retired of the race.

According to him, Fubara duly purchased the party’s information forms, appeared earlier the screening committee and was cleared to contention earlier aboriginal deciding to measurement down up of the primaries, adding that the governor’s withdrawal was wholly a idiosyncratic decision.

“He pulled out; helium stepped down. It is idiosyncratic to him. He bought the forms, came for screening, passed the screening, and we were waiting for the primaries earlier helium opted to measurement down,” Yilwatda stated.

He arsenic debunked claims that the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, influenced the process oregon played immoderate relation successful Fubara’s withdrawal from the race.

Yilwatda maintained that the erstwhile Rivers politician was ...