(UPDATED) Rivers APC presents membership card to Fubara

Rivers APC Chairman, Tony Okocha,presenting Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State with his membership card

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

Keyamo and Okocha are currently in the government house, Port Harcourt, where the governor was also decorated with the APC crest.

Recall that Fubara, at a stakeholders meeting in government house, Port Harcourt, on Monday, announced his defection from the People’s Democratic Party to the APC, saying he will perfect other membership procedures in the coming days.

A source in the government house said Keyemo is a guest of the government for the inauguration of a project in the state on Friday.

Speaking, Okocha said he was in government under the directive of the APC National Chairman to present the party’s membership card to the governor and lauded the latter on his decision to join the fold.

He stated, “Your excellency, I was called up by the chairman of our great party and given the mandate to visit you and to formally present our membership card to you as a prelude to your official reception.

“Let me take this time out to congratulate you on your decision to join the All Progressive Congress.”

Responding, Governor Fubara reiterated that his decision to move to the APC is for the interest and progress of the state; henceforth, it will be his responsibility to properly take care of the APC in the state.

The governor also said his action was in recognition of President Bola Tinubu’s sacrifice to ensure that he remains in office as governor.

He stated, “Let me thank my chairman for taking up this. Like him, he said it’s a spiritual assignment. I want to thank you for accepting to embark on this spiritual assignment.

“It is a spiritual assignment because if you had listened to me when I took this decision, it was for the safety, protection, progress, and development of our dear state. We can’t be doing our own here, and we will be going on a different course with the federal government, the ruling party.

“There is every reason to support Mr President. If not for any other thing, as a person, I know the sacrifice he has made to ensure that we still stand as a government.”

Fubara continued, “So I took this decision as my own return favour, my own clearing the bush to ensure that his reelection come 2027 will be easy, smooth in this state. Now that we are all in one party, because I believe that we have always been with him, but maybe from different flats.

“We are now inside one flat. The job is easy to continue what we have promised, Mr President. Let me thank the national executive, the state Chairman who is representing the National Chairman. I want to assure you, you can take my message back to him.

“We will do everything to keep APC as the main and active progressive party in Rivers State. We are not only going to stop there, but it is my responsibility from this minute to ensure that the party is properly taken care of.

“I will assure you here that every need of the executive, every need of the party in this state, becomes my responsibility.

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