Women In Red March Through Major Streets, Urge Tinubu To Bring Back Sim Fubara

By PHC Telegraph

Most residents of the Garden City Wednesday stood in awe and watched in amazement as columns of Rivers women swept through major streets calling on President Bola Tinubu to restore Sir Siminalayi Fubara as the Governor of Rivers State.

In their thousands, the women carrying placards chanted “Return Sim, Return Sim”, “Tinubu Return Sim” while others chanted ” We Want Sim ooo, We want Sim”:

Since women began turning out for protests on the streets, today’s turn out of women in red, observers say, was the largest.

They matched the women dressed in white in terms of number and surpassed them according to what eyewitnesses told this publication.

Those women allegedly sponsored by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Barrister Nyesom Wike as well as the Sole Administrator, Ibok-Ete Ibas asked Tinubu to ensure the continuation of emergency rule.

Reflecting the popular will, women dressed in red calmly took to the streets, carrying placards that said Rivers people are waiting for the return of their hero.

 

Our Corresp-ondent reports that the women walked through major streets of Port Harcourt up to the East West Road, covering several kilometres on foot as they made their voices known.

Our Correspondent also reports that Rivers people on the sidelines hailed the women as they swept through urging the authorities to end the siege and restore normalcy in the State.

It was a clear indication that regardless of what has happened, especially the demolition of Fubara’s legacy by the Sole Administrator who appears to be aligned to pro-Wike forces, a majority of Rivers people are still standing with the State Governor.

Although dark clouds hung above as the march began, not a drop of rain fell on earth as the women expressed their will on behalf of their oppressed families, their husbands and their children.

Unlike the other women demonstrators who wore black and later white, the women sang, “We cannot sing  the Lord’s song in a strange land.”

It may well be so.