APP woos Fubara, says PDP morally bankrupt

The Action Peoples Party in Rivers State has called on Governor Siminalayi Fubara to seek reelection on its platform in 2027.

The APP Chairman in Rivers State, Sunny Wokekoro, who made the call on Saturday, said the Fubara neither owned the party nor was a member yet.

Wokekoro spoke when he received his predecessor, Kenneth Atata, who paid a courtesy visit at the party’s secretariat in Port Harcourt.

He said the APP was poised to make a statement with the October 5 local government elections in River State, adding that the party was determined to change the narrative.

He said, “I was a founding member of the PDP. I started by being a G-34 coordinator in Port Harcourt. I was a foundation member of that party. The recent events in the country regarding the party’s administration, that party (PDP) is not supposed to house or to still retain any person who has morals, any person who has integrity should have left that party by now.

“All of us that mean well for this nation, all of us that mean well for this state have moved and the movement has brought us to this party. APP is the new destination.

“There is one impression I must have to correct in this gathering, the impression that Governor Siminalayi Fubara is a member of this party or he owns this party. This party has been in existence way back 2017. It predates any of us who have just joined the party.

“So no one person can claim to be the owner of this party. And the truth remains that as I speak to you today, Siminalayi Fubara, the executive Governor of Rivers State, is not a member of our party. However, a good party administrator goes out there looking for the best materials to fill in for elective positions. We’re going to do that, not just me, but all of us are going to do that.

“Women are going to do that, the students are going to do that, the market women are going to do that, politicians are going to do that, we are going to persuade our governor to, if possible during his re-election, the APP should be his platform for that re-election.”

Wokekoro said beyond the governor, the APP would also go after members of the state House of Assembly, National Assembly  and “other people who mean well for this state and for this nation.”

Rumour that Fubara might defect from the PDP to the APP became rife weeks ago when there was a dynamite explosion at the APP secretariat. The governor has been locked in a political battle with his predecessor and estranged political godfather, Nyesom Wike.

However, Fubara, who hosted the PDP Board of Trustees, led by its Chairman, Adolphus Wabara, dismissed the rumour of his planned defection.

In his remark, the APP National Chairman, Uchenna Nnadi, lauded the immediate past leadership of the party in the state, who, he said, brought the party to the limelight in the state.

 Nnadi said, “The way you people resigned to give birth to a new leadership in the interest of Rivers people, I want you to know that at the national headquarters, we celebrate you. The sacrifice you people made is uncommon.”