Defection: You Will Be Throwing Away Your Goodwill Before Rivers People – PDP Chieftain Warns Fubara

Timothy Osadolor, Deputy National Youth Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has warned Rivers State Governor, Sim Fubara, against abandoning the party platform through which he was elected.

Following the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the local government election, the party has been wooing Fubara to defect and gain control of the state’s political structure.

However, PDP  chieftain, Osadolor, in an interview with Punch, said the governor must resist the temptation of defecting to the APC.

According to Osadolor, Fubara will be throwing away his goodwill before the Rivers people if he defects.

He said, “On the APC-led organ, both at the state and national levels, trying to woo Fubara with a unified structure, let me say the Rivers people who freely elected and gave him their mandate to represent them as governor saw APC when they voted for Sim of the PDP.

“Therefore, it means that today we are comfortable with not only Sim, but the platform on which he contested. Again, for Sim Fubara, he may think that for political correctness and survival, he may need to decamp. But I will tell him that if he defects, he will be throwing away his goodwill before the Rivers people.

“What he owes the Rivers people today, to show appreciation for believing in him and for standing by him, is to deliver good governance more than ever before to the people of Rivers so that posterity will judge him and vindicate him.”

Speaking further, Osadolor condemned President Bola Tinubu’s intervention, insisting the introduction of a military administrator was an aberration.

He added, “The suspension of Governor Fubara was actually done by President Tinubu, who, instead of apologising to Nigerians, is trying to justify and rationalise the illegality perpetrated on Rivers people. That is a brazen rape of our constitution and a serious threat to our democracy.”