The Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Rivers State has told Governor Siminilayi Fubara that the style of issuing threats to the people for a decision he made without coercion was most disheartening.
The Rivers state Publicity Secretary of APC, Chibike Ikenga, in a statement issued Wednesday while reacting to the statement credited to Fubara when he received the National Union of Local Government Employees(NULGE) from the 23 local governments on Wednesday in Port Harcourt on Wednesday reminded the governor that in the resolution of any conflict, the parties must make necessary sacrifices for peace and stability.
The party said it wouldn’t have bothered about his address but for his threat to ‘surprise’ the people asking him to implement the Presidential Proclamation for Peace in Rivers state by the which Fubara freely endorsed.
It said: “If Gov. Fubara regrets reporting or asking the President to intervene to save him, which elicited the Presidential Proclamation for peace in the first place. Let him address the state by coming clear to apologise for entering into that reconciliation and opting out of it completely.
“However, having entered into that agreement unfettered, he is bound by it and must follow through to the end. The style of issuing threats to the people for a decision he made without coercion is most disheartening.
“We wish to advise the Governor and his party-PDP, that the instability, absence of peace, lack of development, good governance, transparency and accountability have nexus with their refusal to respect the office and person of the President and commander-in-Chief, President Bola Tinubu by implementing into to the items on the presidential proclamation.”
The APC stressed that Fubara and PDP would be held accountable for any further breakdown of law and order engendered by his threat.
It noted that as a party, the APC shall do everything legally possible to ensure the compliance and obedience to his decision as exemplified by signing of the proclamation and its implementation.
It stressed that the buck stops at the Governor’s table and must take responsibility for any breaches in the build up to lasting peace and stability in our dear state.
It added that threats alone would not solve the problem but understanding, cooperation and selflessness.