Former All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in Rivers State, Tonye Cole, says the emergence of Sim Fubara as the state governor has been contentious from the beginning.
Cole made this assertion on Friday on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’.
He was speaking on Fubara’s return to the camp of FCT minister Nyesom Wike, and other issues in Rivers politics.
“My assumption is that the governor would have gone with his own close allies, discussed with them, and said that this is the best way, that he has to move forward for the next six months or thereabouts of his administration. I would assume that’s what he did.
“But I am not in his chamber, so I wouldn’t know. But that’s what I would assume he would do. But the battle that was fought? Now, what do you do? Do you walk away? If he was going to walk away then, he should not have come back as governor.
“But having taken the responsibility to come and finish his term, then he has to finish it in the way that allows him to govern. He can’t go back into fighting. First of all, the method with which he came into power in the first instance was contentious. Throughout the period when he was there, the contention between himself and his predecessor had a lot of problems for River State.
“So that could not have been the wishes of the people. People looked for something different; they didn’t get it. Now we have an opportunity, and I come back to this – we have an opportunity in Rivers State, and I’m praying this time around that it will work.
“We have an opportunity in Rivers State to set a different type of governance, a different type of process in electing those who represent us in power. My prayer is that we do it right,” he said.
Fubara’s emergence as Rivers governor contentious from beginning – Tonye Cole