Rivers Crisis: Don’t dare me – Fubara warns detractors

Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State has vowed to surprise anybody who dares him, amidst the political crisis bedeviling the oil rich state.

Fubara, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Nelson Chukwudi, said he had been inundated with comments in the media about the implementation of the peace initiative but chose to be silent out of maturity and wisdom.

He said he would particularly surprise those who considered his honest decision to implement the presidential peace pact as a sign of weakness.

The governor said that the peace deal initiated by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and accepted by all stakeholders was a political solution to the crisis that engulfed the state on October 30, 2023.

Fubara said he only decided to immediately begin the implementation of the agreement because of his respect for the President.

But he observed that other political actors had taken his humility and compliance as a sign of weakness.

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“Let me say it here for record purposes: What is happening here in our dear State is somebody who has respect for an elder.

“Mr. President invited all the parties to Abuja and came out with a resolution that we should go and implement. That resolution, I am implementing. It is not a constitutional implementation. It is a political solution to a problem.

“And I am doing it because of the respect I have for Mr President. But, let me say it here, if that action that I have accepted to take would be seen as a weakness, I will surprise them. I want this message to go to them,” the governor said.