Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has declared that he will deliver the state for President Bola Tinubu in 2027.
The governor made the declaration at the Government House, Port Harcourt, on Friday after receiving his All Progressives Congress membership card from the State APC Chairman, Tony Okocha.
He also said he would be responsible for the wellbeing and needs of the party in the state.
Fubara said as the party’s leader in Rivers, he would do everything to keep the ruling party active, including ensuring that members of the state executive were properly “taken care of.”
Fubara had on Tuesday dumped the Peoples Democratic Party for the APC, a few days after 17 lawmakers of the Rivers State House of Assembly joined the ruling party.
He said that with him steering the party, it would be easier to galvanise support to deliver Rivers for Tinubu’s reelection.
Speaking after taking his APC membership card, the governor explained that his decision to join the APC was in the interest of the progress of the state.
He added that his defection was a reciprocation of Tinubu’s resolve to ensure he remained in office as governor.
Fubara said, “Let me thank my chairman for accepting to embark on this spiritual assignment. It is a spiritual assignment because if you had listened to me when I took this decision, it was for the safety, protection, progress, and development of our dear state.
“We can’t be doing our own here and going on a different course from the Federal Government, the ruling party. There is every reason to support Mr President. If not for anything else, as a person, I know the sacrifice he has made to ensure that we still stand as a government.”
