Rivers APC presents membership card to Fubara

Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo, SAN, and Rivers State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Tony Okocha, have offered the APC membership card to Governor Siminalayi Fubara.

Keyamo and Okocha are at the moment within the authorities home, Port Harcourt, the place the governor was additionally adorned with the APC crest.

Recall that Fubara, at a stakeholders assembly in authorities home, Port Harcourt, on Monday, introduced his defection from the Individuals’s Democratic Party to the APC, saying he’ll good different membership procedures within the coming days.

A supply within the authorities home stated Keyemo is a visitor of the federal government for the inauguration of a challenge within the state on Friday.

Talking, Okocha stated he was in authorities underneath the directive of the APC Nationwide Chairman to current the social gathering’s membership card to the governor and lauded the latter on his resolution to hitch the fold.

He said, “Your excellency, I used to be referred to as up by the chairman of our nice social gathering and given the mandate to go to you and to formally current our membership card to you as a prelude to your official reception.

“Let me take this day trip to congratulate you in your resolution to hitch the All Progressive Congress.”

Responding, Governor Fubara reiterated that his resolution to maneuver to the APC is for the curiosity and progress of the state; henceforth, it is going to be his accountability to correctly maintain the APC within the state.

The governor additionally stated his motion was in recognition of President Bola Tinubu’s sacrifice to make sure that he stays in workplace as governor.

He said, “Let me thank my chairman for taking on this. Like him, he stated it’s a non secular task. I need to thanks for accepting to embark on this non secular task.

“It’s a non secular task as a result of in case you had listened to me after I took this resolution, it was for the protection, safety, progress, and growth of our expensive state. We are able to’t be doing our personal right here, and we will likely be occurring a special course with the federal authorities, the ruling social gathering.

“There may be each motive to assist Mr President. If not for some other factor, as an individual, I do know the sacrifice he has made to make sure that we nonetheless stand as a authorities.”

Fubara continued, “So I took this resolution as my very own return favour, my very own clearing the bush to make sure that his reelection come 2027 will likely be simple, easy on this state. Now that we’re multi functional social gathering, as a result of I imagine that we’ve at all times been with him, however perhaps from totally different flats.

“We are actually inside one flat. The job is straightforward to proceed what we’ve promised, Mr President. Let me thank the nationwide govt, the state Chairman who’s representing the Nationwide Chairman. I need to guarantee you, you may take my message again to him.

“We’ll do every little thing to maintain APC as the principle and energetic progressive social gathering in Rivers State. We aren’t solely going to cease there, however it’s my accountability from this minute to make sure that the social gathering is correctly taken care of.

“I’ll guarantee you right here that each want of the chief, each want of the social gathering on this state, turns into my accountability.