Rivers state governor, Siminialayi Fubara has declared that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has failed the state.
The governor said that Rivers was currently relying on a mass movement based on truth and consistency instead of party politics.
The governor spoke while receiving a delegation from the Senate Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation, led by Senator Orji Uzo Kalu, at Government House in Port Harcourt.
He said the state would no longer be held back by party affiliation, but would instead stand firm on its own soil to defend democracy.
Fubara said: “In our state today we are no longer doing party. We are doing a movement, so you don’t blame me if I don’t go to the side of the party too much.
“The party has failed us here, so what we are doing here is to stand with our two legs on the soil of Rivers State, so that we can defend democracy.”
An endless political war between Fubara and his estranged benefactor, Nyesom Wike, who is the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, has enveloped Rivers.
The crisis escalated following the collapse of the peace deal President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, brokered for the warring parties.
The governor was reportedly disappointed at the silence of his party on the crisis.
[TheNation]