The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State has expressed their frustration over the defence of President Bola Tinubu by Governor Siminilayi Fubara, News About Nigeria reports.
The Party’s Deputy National Youth Leader, Timothy Osadolor, in an interview, said that they were not happy with the decision of the governor to implement the peace pact proposed by the president.
He noted that the governor is an adult and is capable of making his own decisions as Governor of the state, maintaining that the issues at hand are bigger than both President Bola Tinubu and Governor Fubara because they are constitutional issues.
He maintained that the issues surrounding the vacant seats of the defected lawmakers remained constitutional and not the wishes or discretion of the President.
According to him, the votes belong to the PDP constitutionally, and it was therefore wrong for the governor, after a meeting with the president, to ask the PDP not to take charge of its votes.
Osadolor further disclosed that the party was in court to contest the directive of the governor, stating that the votes belong to the PDP and not to Fubara or Villa.
He noted that it was well within the rights of the governor to pay salaries and allowances of the lawmakers to the date their seats become vacant, stating that that was the constitutional right of the governor.
He therefore urged the governor to know his limits and work within them.
In the same vein, a former National Secretary of the PDP, Senator Ibrahim Tsauri, cautioned that the governor would be committing a political blunder to implement a peace pact against his party’s stand.
