STATE governors, elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, converge on Ibadan, the Oyo State capital for a two-day meeting that began yesterday to brainstorm on some very serious issues affecting the party, including the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State and the subsequent suspension of Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
This came as former Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo alias Tompolo, has broken his silence almost a month after a state of emergency declaration in Rivers State and assured that Fubara would return to his post.
Meanwhile, a former member of the House of Representatives, Dr. Farah Dagogo, has dragged President Bola Tinubu, Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Speaker, House of Reps, Mr. Tajudeen Abbas and the Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Vice Admiral Ibok-Etteh Ibas (retd), to court over the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State.
However, the Ijaw National Congress, INC, has expressed disgust over the wanton destruction and pulling down of billboards carrying the picture of the suspended Governor Fubara, in some parts of Rivers State.
It was gathered that the governors are to deliberate on their suit against the Federal Government at the Supreme Court which is challenging the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State and the subsequent suspension of Fubara.
The National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Debo Ologunagba, confirmed that the meeting of the governors Forum began yestreday, in Ibadan, and ends today.
The source, who noted that the governors will also address the crisis rocking the party in the South-South, said: “The meeting is very crucial.
“Part of their agenda includes the Supreme Court judgment on the National Secretary, the upcoming National Executive Committee meeting, the South-South zonal leadership crisis, the state of emergency in Rivers State, the leadership crisis within the NWC, and other party matters that will be thoroughly discussed.”
Fubara will return to his seat —Tompolo
Tompolo made the revelation Saturday during his 54th birthday celebration at Aziza temple in Gbaramatu.
According to him: “I have sat on the throne of my father and all that is lost will return to glory, the Ijaws will never be conquered people, if Ijaws chose to go to war, the heavens will join us, I have never fought a battle and lost.
“Let’s continue to support President Tinubu, he will bring all the good things we desire to Ijaw Nation, he is not a bad person.
“On the issue of ward delineation, we and the itsekiris are not at war, they know the truth, the Gbaramatu town of Omadino is 40 years older than all Itsekiris communities, so why fighting someone older than you?, they know that if you put all the Itsekiris town together they are not close to the population in Okerenkoko, so INEC only revealed the truth.
“On the issue in Rivers State, because I have not spoken they say I have betrayed the Ijaw Nation, but I cannot betray Ijaw Nation, I have spent all my life fighting for Ijaw, but we have passed the stage of responding to Wike’s kind of statement, we are no longer in that level.”
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