We’ll Stand With Fubara Until The End – PDP Govs

• Insist the doors of the PDP are open to parties, individuals that want to join its ranks

By PHC Telegraph

Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who recently approached  the country’s Supreme Court for an interpretation of some constitutional provisions have pledged to stand with Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State. 

The Governors who rose from a two-day meeting which in Ibadan, Capital of Oyo State, reaffirmed their resolve to fight on the side of democracy and also ensure the restoration of Fubara as the governor of Rivers State.

Fubara was momentarily forced out of office in March by President Bola Tinubu following an official declaration of a state of emergency.

Most Nigerians have argued and still argue that the President’s suspension of the Rivers Governor is not known to law as well as the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Rising from their meeting, the PDP Governors said in their communique, “The Forum reasserts our collective determination to avert a rape of our constitutional democracy.”

It said the decision to approach the Supreme Court is intended to obtain “a clear cut verdict on the interpretation of the provisions of the law” relating to the “declaration of State of Emergency in any state.”

The  communique further stated, “The Forum restates its solidarity with His Excellency, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, on the ordeal into which his state and people are being plunged by the declaration of a state of emergency. And we reiterate our commitment to stand with him till the end.

The Governors dismissed the idea of the PDP ever losing its identity by merging with other political parties.

“However, the PDP as a major opposition party welcomes any party, persons or groups that are willing to join it with a view to wrestling power and enthroning good leadership in 2027”, the Governors clarified.

They reiterated the earlier position taken in Asaba, Delta State, on the issue of the National Secretary of the party.

But in the wake of the Supreme Court judgment, the Forum “resolved to recommend that the Deputy National Secretary acts as National Secretary, pending the nomination and ratification of a Substantive Secretary from the South East Zone.”