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The suspended governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, has been told that his sins won’t be forgiven even if he joins the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) stated this yesterday while addressing a press conference in Abuja, reports Daily Independent.
Speaking at the press conference, the chairman of the APC Caretaker Committee, Tony Okocha, said that before Fubara can be admitted into the APC, there are procedures that needed to be followed, as the APC is not a dumping ground.
Okocha also explained that Fubara’s suspension and the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State had no business whatsoever with politics.
He said: “Fubara’s suspension and the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State had no business whatsoever with politics. It was about his misdemeanour and I said to you that he said that the president saved his job by declaring the state of emergency.
“Don’t forget that the Supreme Court in its judgment had said that there was no government in Rivers State. So, if there was no government in Rivers State, something must be done and that which happened was the declaration of the state of emergency.
“If Fubara decides to join the APC, it has nothing to do with state of emergency in Rivers State. His sins cannot be forgiven because he came to our party. It is not true. He has not spoken to me. He will enter the party through the door not the window. Not only him, there are procedures for defection to another party and if he claims to be a politician, he will know that all politics is local, he will try and defect in his ward. From there it will come to us and my ward chairmen I have asked, nobody brought any information about him entering APC.
“You will jump into APC today and your sins are forgiven, that can’t be true. It won’t work that way. Then, it would have made APC as a dumping ground for people who commit misdemeanour and believe that by and large we will come for reconciliation. No.”
Okocha also said that Fubara has yet to initiate any meaningful steps for reconciliation, adding, “I can only say to you with the benefit of knowledge that I am not aware of any reconciliatory move. No reconciliation is going on, is it going to talk to Mr President? But Mr. President has said go and make peace. No attempt at that.
“I am not aware of any reconciliatory moves by Fubara and his team.”
On Fubara visit to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Okocha said that they are not worried, adding, “How can I be worried that somebody visited my president. Don’t forget it is also the season for Sallah. So, we can’t be worried, we can’t gag the president to say you will see Mr. A, you will not see Mr. B. Perhaps, if I had made an application to see Mr. President, I would have been there with my team.”
