Gov of Bauchi state and Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum, Bala Mohammed, has stated that his Rivers State counterpart, Governor Siminalayi Fubara, is still a member of the PDP.
This is coming after other parties constituted the body of elected officers at the local government level.
Recall that Saturday council election was won by the Action Peoples Party (APP) which secured 22 out of 23 chairmanship positions, while the Action Alliance candidate won one seat.
The APP also won 314 out of the 319 councillorship seats in the 23 LGAs in the state.
Fubara subsequently swore in the the newly elected council chairmen of the 23 local government areas of the state on Sunday.
Bala, in a statement issued through his Chief Press Secretary, Nelson Chukwudi, asserted that Fubara has established himself as a governor and pride of other governors in Nigeria.
Mohammed said Fubara deployed his democratic instincts with strategies to carefully deliver democratic governance at the local government level, irrespective of party allegiance or consideration.
The PDP Governors’ Forum chairman affirmed that Rivers State is a PDP State, even if the just sworn-in local government chairmen and councillors are of different political parties.
He said, “Of course, he is still with us. He’s still a PDP man, and I have to come, on behalf of the Governors, to show solidarity with him for his very proactive democratic instincts that he developed, which is a new manifestation in the political arena in Nigeria; where he had to intensify, and he has to develop strategy to be able to deliver governance, irrespective of party allegiance or party consideration.
“He didn’t have a structure of the party in the state, for certain reasons, and he had to go out to make sure he allowed other parties to participate within the political space so that there wouldn’t be any vacuum.
“And, I think this is very auspicious, that is very creative and I am very proud of him. And I said, yes, we have lost as a party, and that is why we want to be running away from this.
“Again, he has established himself as a Governor and the pride of all the governors in Nigeria.”
