The Rivers State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Tony Okocha, has said that the suspended Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, must face the full weight of the law, whether he joins APC or not. He recently shared that Fubara’s sins will not be forgiven even if he joins the ruling party.
Speaking while addressing newsmen at the APC National Secretariat in Abuja, Okocha said that Fubara’s offences were not political, but against the people of Rivers State, according to the judgement delivered by the Supreme Court.
According to him, despite the presidential order, the suspended governor should have embarked on reconciliatory moves by now to broker peace, but Fubara has done nothing thus far.
He stated that APC cannot be allowed to be used as a dumping ground for politicians who intentionally commit offences and try to wave them away.
“If Fubara decides to join APC today, his sins cannot be forgiven because his suspension has nothing to do with politics.
You will jump into the APC today, and your sins are forgiven. That can’t be true. It won’t work that way. Then, it would have made the APC a dumping ground for people who commit misdemeanours and believe that by and large, we will come for reconciliation. No,” he said.
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He further stressed that there is currently no reconciliation effort underway in Rivers State, and only genuine reconciliation can save the suspended governor from impeachment.
He concluded by saying that he would know if any reconciliation effort is ongoing because he is the chairman of the APC in Rivers State.
“I can confirm that there is no reconciliation effort currently underway in Rivers. The suspended Governor Fubara has not made any move to reconcile with the lawmakers. Only genuine reconciliation can save him from impeachment, as the Supreme Court judgment stands.
There is no reconciliation ongoing, not to my knowledge, I should know because I am the Chairman of the Rivers APC. I have spoken with all the strata of the society in the state, but none has agreed that the bygone should be bygone,” he added.
