Gov Fubara directs Rivers federal lawmakers to vote Akpabio, Abbas

The Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, has directed federal lawmakers-elect from the state to vote for Godswill Akpabio as Senate president and Tajudeen Abbas as speaker of the Home of Representatives within the tenth Nationwide Meeting.

The governor gave the directives in a gathering with the lawmakers-elect in Authorities Home, Port Harcourt on Friday.

He stated supporting Messrs Akpabio and Abbas is to advance “nationwide curiosity.”

That is contained in a assertion posted on Fb by the governor’s spokesperson, Boniface Onyedi.

“The Rivers State governor charged members-elect to not veer off the declared curiosity of the state in an effort to stay centered in electing the popular selections.

“He admonished the members-elect to all the time work collectively as a group to make the specified impression and benefit from the dividends that observe.

“Mr Fubara assured the members-elect of steady assist in order to stay related in nationwide affairs,” Mr Onyedi stated.

Messrs Akpabio and Abbas are the popular candidates of President Bola Tinubu and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the place of Senate President and Speaker of the Home of Representatives of the tenth Nationwide Meeting, respectively.

Regardless of the endorsement of each candidates by the President and the management of APC, Messrs Akpabio and Abbas are nonetheless going through stiff opposition from some lawmakers-elect inside the ruling APC and opposition events.

Mr Akpabio, weeks in the past, led some Nationwide Meeting members-elect to former Rivers governor, Nyesom Wike, to solicit his assist for his candidature.

Mr Wike had assured Mr Akpabio that federal lawmakers from Rivers would assist the APC most well-liked candidates due to “nationwide curiosity”.

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Like his predecessor, Mr Fubara additionally directed federal lawmakers-elect from the state to vote the APC most well-liked candidates when President Tinubu proclaimed the tenth Nationwide Meeting on 13 June.

Responding on behalf of the lawmakers-elect, the Senator-elect for Rivers South-East District, Barry Mpigi, thanked Mr Fubara for the assembly and warranted that members will work in step with his directives because the chief of the state.

The PDP is the ruling occasion in Rivers.

Governor Fubara’s stand is clearly influenced by his predecessor, Mr Wike’s assist for Mr Tinubu after falling aside with the PDP and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar after he (Wike) misplaced the 2022 PDP presidential major.