₦airaland Forum

FUBARA’S DEFECTION: A CASE OF SELF-INFLICTED INJURY
 
The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party @OfficialPDPNig has received the news of the formal defection of His Excellency, Sir Siminalayi Fubara the Governor of Rivers State from our Party to the ruling party. This news as pitiful as it is, is an exemplar of the old legal maxim Volenti non fit injuria, meaning “to one who is willing, no harm can be done”.  
 
Everyone who has followed the developments that culminated in this uneventful defection, will recall that the Governor willingly travelled the path that took him to this destination. Having done so voluntarily, he cannot turn around and accuse our party, or any other person or group of abandoning or not protecting him. Whilst a person who is at a crossroad of threats of existential proportion, will most likely suffer from temporary amnesia caused by trauma, the Governor should have nothing less than praise for our party, civil society organisations, and all Nigerians who freely stood up in his defence since this crisis started until he capitulated. It is our prayer that the Governor should not suffer from Stockholm Syndrome, where a victim falls in love with his captor. In all, despite these, we pity the Governor and wish him well.
 
Furthermore, the Rivers situation is a testament to the dysfunctional nature of our democracy, where individuals are bigger and stronger than institutions and can use the apparatus of the Federal Government to obfuscate political life out of their opponents and bring them to their knees. Democracy is terribly threatened by acts of this kind, and all well-meaning people should unify in condemning this progressive decline of democratic norms.
 
Finally, we reiterate to Nigerians and the global community that with the unrelenting disposition of the ruling party towards the attainment of a one-party state, and the constriction of the political space, democracy is under severe attack in Nigeria. Everyone must rise together to oppose this ignoble trip toward electoral authoritarianism.
 
Signed:
 
Comrade Ini Ememobong
National Publicity Secretary
Peoples Democratic Party
09122025

Redoil:
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HgAkpobomeEr:
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femi4:
A wailing party...Wike has destroyed whats left of the party's reputation

JASONjnr:
Wike shouldn't be your problem..... Focus on your PDP and ensure that you vote your candidate....

Because nothing's left of PDP....

You guys came second in the last election, I don't think you will get anything close to fifth.....

Pythagoras001:
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femi4:
lolz..I dont even have a party

HgAkpobomeEr:
Any self-respecting person should avoid PDP.

Pythagoras001:
I am liking this new pdp publicity secretary

Typing:
Why?

Nigerians will avoid Tinubu's APC. The President has nothing to offer. His incompetence made Nigeria what it is today