The suspended governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, has declared that he is not eager to resume his position.
Fubara made this statement during a service of songs organized by the Rivers Elders Forum in Port Harcourt, the state capital, on Sunday, May 11, to honor the late elder statesman, Edwin Clark.
The beleaguered governor addressed several speakers at the event who called him “Governor” and vehemently opposed his suspension, demanding its immediate reversal.
However, Fubara distanced himself from their statements, characterizing them as individual opinions.
He suggested that such remarks were unlikely to foster peace.
“Not everything is by oshogbe,” he cautioned, alluding to his preference for a more calculated and less adversarial approach to the current political turmoil.
“Don’t you see how better I look? Do you think I am interested again? If I have my way, I don’t wish to go back there. My spirit has already left there,” he said.
Fubara further cautioned that some actions by his supporters, though well-meaning, had only aggravated his circumstances.
He encouraged those present to concentrate on paying tribute to Edwin Clark, who led a selfless life advocating for the Niger Delta region, rather than turning the event into a political matter.
President Tinubu had, on March 18, suspended Gov Fubara, his deputy, and all members of the State House of Assembly for six months due to the political conflict between Fubara and his mentor, the former governor of the state, Nyesom Wike.
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