A former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Uche Secondus; and members of the Presidential Campaign Council of the party for the 2023 general elections in Rivers State have declared loyalty and support for President Bola Tinubu and the state governor, Siminalayi Fubara.
A former Minister of Transportation and the Director-General, PDP-PCC Rivers State, Dr. Abiye Sekibo, made the declaration during a news briefing in Port Harcourt on Thursday
Present at the briefing were Secondus; former Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Austin Opara; Celestine Omehia, former deputy governor of the state, Tele Ikuru; Senator Lee Maeba; and former Secretary to the Rivers State Government, Dr. Gabriel Pidomson. among others.
The council supported the PDP presidential candidate in 2023, Atiku Abubakar, in the last elections.
Former governor Nyesom Wike and his successor Sim Fubara fell out few months after Fubara became governor over control of the party at the state level
Since then it has been one issue or the other involving the duo and their supporters
In December last year the political crisis rocking the state assumed a different dimension with 27 out of the 32 members of the State House of Assembly defecting from the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The crisis got so messy prompting the mediation by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu many months after, the cold war is very far from over
Ekweanaedo reports that he irreconcilable political differences between Fubara and Wike had created tension and division in the state, leading to an attempt by the State Assembly to impeach the governor.
Rivers Crisis: Secondus, Sekibo, Others Declare Support For Fubara
