A former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Uchechi Secondus has imputed favouritism to President Bola Tinubu, accusing him of taking sides with his party, the All Progressives Congress, and Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike in the political crisis rocking Rivers State.
The former governor and his predecessor and godson, Siminalayi Fubara, have been at loggerheads in which twenty-seven of the State House of Assembly lawmakers elected on the platform of the PDP defected to the ruling APC with a court order subsequently declaring their seats vacant while the said lawmakers made move to impeach the governor.
It has caused the resignation of several commissioners also loyal to Wike in Fubara’s cabinet to turn in their resignation letters.
Tinubu while reconciling the warring parties, asked Fubara to allow the Commissioners to return, recognise the lawmakers against him among others.
To Secondus who hails from the state, the President was not fair to the governor and the PDP.
The latter chieftain alluded this in a statement signed by his media aide, Ike Adonyi which reads in part: “With particular reference to the crisis in Rivers State, the former PDP boss contended that the Intervention of President Bola Tinubu must be by the spirit and letter of our constitution for it to be implementable.
“There are creative ways a political conflict can be resolved if and when the President acts like a statesman and the President of all Nigerians.
“He insisted that Mr President would have violated this sacred role if he acted in such a way and manner that gave an unconstitutional advantage to his political party, the APC, and an individual political godfather. This is the scenario the unenforceable agreement reached at the instance of Mr President purports to foster!”
