Siminalayi Fubara, the governor of Rivers state, has boasted that he has conquered the state’s opponents as the political crisis in the state takes a new turn.
The governor made the remark while addressing the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) worldwide, where he acknowledged their fraternity support. He went on to say that youngsters should play an important role in celebrating the state’s emancipation.
On Thursday, May 16, the IYC held a solidarity walk to the Government House in Port Harcourt to commemorate the 56th anniversary of the late Maj. Isaac Adaka Boro.
Fubara stated that Adaka Boro sincerely believed in equality, justice, and fair play and pursued his way to ensure the release of the Ijaw people and their clans. The governor insisted that every true Rivers man was a liberator. He was overjoyed to welcome them on such auspicious day to re-enact the united goal of liberty.
Fubara admires Ijaw youths.
Fubara praised the enormous crowd for their pledges that they would respond to his appeal and support him, stating there would be no need to interrupt the calm. He insisted that the state’s enemies were already defeated. Fubara admires Ijaw youths. Fubara praised the enormous crowd for their pledges that they would respond to his appeal and support him, stating there would be no need to interrupt the calm. He insisted that the state’s enemies were already defeated.
His statement reads in part: “By the special grace of God, what they thought that they would have done to us while we were celebrating our one year in office, they are the ones sleeping with their two eyes open. It shows that we have the Ijaw blood. And what is that blood: it is the blood of action; less talk, more action.”
Claims the EFCC declared Fubara wanted fact-checked. Legit.ng previously reported that, contrary to a social media claim, Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State was not recently declared wanted by the EFCC.
The governor was last proclaimed wanted by the EFCC in May 2022 as Rivers state’s accountant general, after first coming to the agency’s attention in 2018 as the state’s director of finance.