Defecting to our Party won’t stop your impeachment – APC tells Fubara
Defecting to our Party won’t stop your impeachment – APC tells Fubara
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has declared that suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara will not be absolved of his alleged misconduct even if he chooses to defect to the ruling party.
Speaking to journalists on Tuesday in Abuja, the state’s APC Caretaker Committee Chairman, Tony Okocha, addressed the political buzz surrounding Fubara’s recent Sallah visit to President Bola Tinubu, stressing that the governor’s suspension and the declaration of a state of emergency in the state were consequences of his actions not political maneuvering.
Okocha stated clearly that the party would not overlook what he described as Fubara’s “misdemeanors” simply because of a possible defection, insisting that accountability must prevail regardless of political affiliation.
“If Fubara decides to join the APC, it has nothing to do with the state of emergency in Rivers state. His sins cannot be forgiven because he came to our party.
“You will jump into APC today and your sins are forgiven? That cannot be true. It won’t work that way. Then, it would have made APC as a dumping ground for people who commit misdemeanor and believe that by and large we will come for reconciliation.
“No. 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 would know that all politics is local, he would 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,” he said.
When asked if Fubara’s meeting with President Tinubu was a cause for concern, Tony Okocha said the APC had no reason to be unsettled.
“How can I be worried that somebody visited my President? Don’t forget it was also the season of Sallah. Yesterday, I read somewhere that the former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Osoba paid Sallah homage and I don’t know whether you also saw the President in the company of Chief Nyesom Wike.
“So we cannot be worried, we cannot 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,” he added.
