Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has said he did not struggle with his decision to defect from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC), describing the move as an “easy choice”
Fubara spoke on Thursday while addressing journalists at the APC national headquarters in Abuja, days after formally joining the ruling party.
According to the governor, his defection was not a difficult decision, as he had long felt disconnected from the PDP, particularly during the protracted political crisis in Rivers State.
“I think my transition was one of the easiest things I have done in my life,” Fubara said. “My joining the APC is simply to say thank you to Mr President and to join hands with other progressives to develop my state and Nigeria at large. It wasn’t a difficult decision at all.”
The governor revealed that, despite being a PDP member, he often felt sidelined and uninvolved in the party’s internal affairs, noting that he merely observed events from the ‘balcony’.
“If I have to be honest, was I really a member of the PDP? I wasn’t,” he said. “I was in the party just nominally. During the crisis, I wasn’t part of any group. I was not inside the house; I was outside, on the balcony.”
Fubara’s defection followed a prolonged political battle with his predecessor, former Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, over control of the PDP structure and party affairs in the oil-rich state.
The crisis led President Bola Tinubu to suspend both the governor, his deputy and the Rivers State House of Assembly for six months to restore stability.
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