According to Rivers State stakeholder and political analyst Maoboye Nangi, Governor Siminalayi Fubara deceived his followers by signing a number of agreements with his political mentor Nyesom Wike without their knowledge, and the governor’s withdrawal from the election was a consequence of those arrangements becoming public.
When addressing the notion that Fubara was under outside pressure to abandon his bid for reelection, Nangi stated this on News Central TV. According to him, the governor has always kept the terms of his agreements with Wike secret and has never been honest with the citizens of Rivers State.
Nangi said that Fubara made between four and five deals that he kept secret from the public, and the present political backlash was just the result of him being compelled to abide by those commitments.
When it became evident that Fubara had decided against seeking a second term, he claimed he personally severed ties with the governor. He maintained that this lack of transparency was the primary cause of the state’s political unrest and retribution, and that Fubara had been lying to his supporters all along while feigning the contrary.
He characterized the governor’s recent stakeholder gathering as emotional manipulation, claiming that Fubara put his own interests ahead of those of his followers. Rivers folks should not support a leader who makes secret deals, rallies people to the streets, and then goes back to those same arrangements, according to Nangi.
In his own words, I don’t think there is any pressure here. There is no pressure. The governor has always been dishonest with the citizens of the state.
The governor duped many of us, his ardent supporters. He made numerous deals with his supervisor and forbade us from delving into the specifics of that alleged arrangement.
They made him abide by the agreement, so that’s what’s happening. He lied to the citizens of Rivers State in four or five of his agreements.
