Fubara not coming back — APC chieftain alleges, says there are plot to stop the suspended governor from returning to office 

Fubara not coming back — APC chieftain alleges, says there are plot to stop the suspended governor from returning to office 

 

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has alleged that there are plots to stop the suspended Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara from returning to his office at the end of the current emergency rule in the state.

 

According to Eze, facts abound about plans to concoct an avalanche of falsehood against the suspended Governor Fubara.

 

He said all the plots were aimed at stopping the Governor from coming back to the Brick House.

 

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Eze said, “This will be a shame to us all if we keep quiet and allow this evil to sail through.”

 

Eze, in a statement in Port-Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, on Tuesday, condemned what he described as an alleged failed attempt by the camp of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, to put out a false narrative aimed at impugning Fubara’s integrity.

 

He cited the recent press briefing by the former head of service of Rivers State, George Nwaeke where, according to him, the ex-HoS was being pressured to make some scathing statements against the suspended Governor.

 

Recall that during the press briefing, Nwaeke had alleged that Governor Fubara orchestrated the inferno that gutted the House of Assembly Complex through his Chief of Staff, Edison Ehie and Chijioke Ihunwo, former Obio/Akpor Council Chairman.

 

He also blamed the entire political crisis on the Governor and thanked the President for declaring emergency rule on the State.

 

Also recall that the wife of the former Head of Service, on the other hand, upon seeing her husband’s press address, raised the alarm to rebuff the false narrative.

 

She said her husband had left the house to Abuja on the invitation of his friend, Mr Ogidi, a loyalist of the FCT Minister and Commissioner at the National Population Commission, from Abua.

 

Again, the woman later granted an interview to clarify further that her husband resigned as Head of Service because he resisted a conspiracy to indict the Governor in a $15billion schemed scandal.

 

She said her husband’s failure to sign the document to falsely indict the Governor of swindling $15 billion led to his resignation.

 

Eze, in his statement, accused the FCT Minister of doing everything to truncate all efforts at reconciliation and stability in Rivers State, contrary to the directive of his own principal, President Bola Tinubu.

 

He said the main interest of the FCT Minister is to ensure that Fubara does not return as the Governor of Rivers State.

 

“An interest that runs antithetical to democratic norms and the collective stance of Rivers people,” Eze, a former Spokesman to the defunct New Peoples Democratic, said.

 

He added that “with the unhealthy vendetta of George Nwaeke against the Governor, facts abound that the Sole Administrator has a new mandate; to concoct a floodgate of falsehood against Gov. Fubara with full media support, in a bid to stop the Governor from coming back to the Brick House. This will be a shame to us all if we keep quiet and allow this evil to sail through.”

 

Eze commended the wife of the former head of service, “who, having known her husband as a man of sound moral, quickly raised the alarm in an attempt to safeguard the integrity of Mr. Nwaeke and that of her family, which has been discredited in the circumstance.”

 

He urged President Tinubu “to stand on the path of truth and not on the potpourri of false narratives and cocktail of lies served him by those who have declared themselves enemies of the state and are hellbent on stifling Nigeria’s nascent democracy under the Tinubu administration, in pursuit of some selfish, private vendetta.”