Joining APC Won’t Wash Away Fubara’s Sins – Tony Okocha

Siminalayi Fubara

The Rivers State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Tony Okocha, has come out to say that the suspended Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, must face the full weight of the law, whether he joins the APC or not.

He recently had his say while speaking to newsmen at the APC National Secretariat in Abuja, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, Fubara’s offences are not political, but against the people of Rivers State; therefore, joining the APC changes nothing, and he’ll still pay for his sins.

Okocha added that the suspended governor should have embarked on reconciliatory moves by now to broker peace, but Fubara has done nothing thus far.

His words, “If Fubara decides to join APC today, his sins cannot be forgiven because his suspension has nothing to do with politics.

You will jump into the APC today, and your sins are forgiven. That can’t be true. It won’t work that way. Then, it would have made the APC a dumping ground for people who commit misdemeanours and believe that by and large, we will come for reconciliation. No.

I can confirm that there is no reconciliation effort currently underway in Rivers. The suspended Governor Fubara has not made any move to reconcile with the lawmakers. Only genuine reconciliation can save him from impeachment, as the Supreme Court judgment stands.

There is no reconciliation ongoing, not to my knowledge, I should know because I am the Chairman of the Rivers APC. I have spoken with all the strata of the society in the state, but none has agreed that the bygone should be bygone.”

WOW.