Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State says he was never an actual member of the Peoples Democratic Party, insisting that the party was responsible for most of the political battles he faced before his recent defection to the All Progressives Congress.
Speaking with journalists on Wednesday night after a visit to the APC National Secretariat in Abuja, the governor said the PDP “imposed” nearly all the troubles that confronted him during the height of the Rivers political crisis.
Okay News reports that the governor formally joined the APC earlier this month.
Fubara, who described his years in the PDP as passive and detached, said he never felt integrated into the party.
“If I have to be honest, was I really a member of the PDP? I wasn’t. Whatever I suffered during the political crisis, 90 percent of it was imposed on me by the party. I was in my former party, just there. During the crisis, you can’t associate me with any group. I was just, let me say, at the balcony, I wasn’t inside the house; I was outside, at the balcony,” he said.
He explained that his visit to the APC headquarters was to understand the structure he had joined and to meet the leadership formally.
“I can’t belong to a house without first coming into the house and understanding how it is arranged. I felt it would be proper for me to visit the National Secretariat today to familiarise myself with the members and the operations. This way, when I come here next time, it won’t feel as if I am a new person,” he added.
