Orji Uzor Kalu Pledges To Deliver Abia To APC In 2027<\/a><\/p>\nHe, however, emphasized that governors are encouraged to carry all stakeholders along, a commitment Governor Fubara has already made and is already demonstrating in Rivers State.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the same time, we tell the governors who have leaders at the national level to respect inclusion,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
On the issue of Governor Fubara\u2019s second-term bid, Yilwatda stated that the APC would support and work for the governor\u2019s re-election if he emerges as the party\u2019s candidate through the primary process, a process that can only be determined by duly accredited party delegates.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Siminalayi emerges as the candidate of the APC in Rivers State, I will stand by him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
His statement comes amid speculations about who the leader of the party is in Rivers State.<\/p>\n
Fubara joined the APC in December, saying he was leaving the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to support President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reason why we are still standing is because of that place, and the truth is, without Mr President, there wouldn\u2019t be any His Excellency Siminalayi Fubara; it would have been the former governor.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, we have every reason because the truth, let nobody be fooled in this state, we have the people, we have the supporters. Our only thank-you to Mr President is to support him, and we cannot support the President in isolation;<\/p>\n
\u201cWe cannot support the President if we don\u2019t fully identify with him, not backyard support. So, we have taken that decision today since we have gotten the pass. Everyone here who had followed me, who had suffered with me, our decision today, this evening, we are moving to APC,\u201d Fubara said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nentawe Yilwatda, has clarified that the Governor of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[1931,1932,122,1933],"class_list":{"0":"post-1848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria","8":"tag-apc","9":"tag-govermors","10":"tag-nigeria","11":"tag-rivers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}