What will happen if Fubara decides to defect to APC? Rivers chair reveals

• Rivers APC Chairman Chief Emeka Beke confirmed the party’s readiness to invited suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara if helium defects from the PDP, citing strategical benefits
• Fubara’s defection would presumption him arsenic the APC authorities leader, enhancing the party’s power successful Rivers and allowing collaborative governance improvements
• The Rivers State Elders Council prioritises Fubara’s reinstatement implicit enactment politics, portion reconciliation talks with FCT Minister Nyesom Wike proceed amid defection rumours

Port Hacourt, Rivers state - The Rivers State section of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has declared its readiness to invited suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara should helium take to defect from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

APC president says Fubara’s defection volition payment some sides

Rivers APC has outlined the imaginable outcomes if Siminalayi Fubara chooses to articulation the ruling party. Photo credit: @officialAPCNG/@SimFubaraKSC
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As reported by Punch, connected Tuesday, May 20, Rivers APC Chairman Chief Emeka Beke, done his Chief of Staff, Chizi Enyi, described specified a determination arsenic strategically advantageous for the enactment and the governor.

“Sure, we volition invited the governor. Do we person an option? Welcoming the politician into the enactment volition mean the APC gains a strategical vantage successful Rivers State,” Beke said.

He noted the challenges states often look erstwhile their governors are from absorption parties, including difficulties with backing and information successful authorities affairs.

Governor would go authorities APC leader, boosting enactment influence

Beke explained that Fubara’s joining the APC would automatically presumption him arsenic the enactment person successful the state, granting the APC greater visibility and power successful governance.

“As the politician of Rivers State, helium automatically becomes the person of the enactment astatine the authorities level. This would besides let the APC to play a cardinal relation successful authorities programmes and functions,” helium said.

APC unfastened to advising Fubara connected governance improvements

The president besides expressed willingness to connection guidance to Fubara, signalling a displacement from erstwhile absorption stance to a collaborative attack if helium joins the APC.

“As an absorption party, we person kept our suggestions to ourselves. If the politician joins us, we’ll unfastened our hearts to him and connection input connected however to amended the lives of Rivers people,” Beke added.

Elders assembly focuses connected Fubara’s return, not enactment politics

Rivers APC discusses what whitethorn hap should Siminalayi Fubara opt to articulation the ruling party. Photo credit: @SimFubaraKSC
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Meanwhile, the Rivers authorities Elders and Leaders Council distanced itself from enactment politics, insisting their precedence is the reinstatement of Governor Fubara.

Anabs Sara-Igbe, a assembly member, criticised the continued assignment of Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas arsenic Sole Administrator, describing it arsenic unconstitutional.

“Rivers radical are not funny successful enactment authorities now. We privation Sim’s return. That is our interest,” Sara-Igbe said.

Fubara’s media aide, Jerry Omatsogunwa, confirmed ongoing reconciliation talks betwixt the politician and FCT Minister Nyesom Wike but dismissed rumours of defection to the APC, Leadership reported.

“They are talking, but details are not clear. Everything you perceive is speculation. We person not heard thing astir defection for now,” Omatsogunwa stated.

As governmental negotiations continue, the concern successful Rivers authorities remains fluid, with the APC poised to capitalise connected immoderate imaginable defection by the suspended governor.

2027 election: APC takes caller enactment to origin much defections

Previously, Legit.ng reported that arsenic the 2027 wide elections gully near, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has intensified efforts to tribunal opposition governors and erstwhile officeholders with enticing offers, triggering anxiousness crossed absorption parties, including the PDP, Labour Party (LP), and New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).

Sources accidental that the APC is promising erstwhile governors ministerial appointments, portion existent governors are assured of re-election bids, the powerfulness to take their successors, and power implicit National Assembly nominations.

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Source: Legit.ng