Insist ‘We Have Crossed That Rubicon’
Hopes that the Peoples Democratic Party lawmakers who defected to the All Progressives Congress may return back to the party faded on Wednesday night as they vowed never to look back again.
This was made known by one of the members who defected to the APC, Enemi George.
George, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday, monitored by our Reporter, said that 27 of them that moved to the APC are committed to supporting President Bola Tinubu’s ‘Renewed Hope Agenda’.
“We have crossed that Rubicon. We have move to the APC. We voted for the President, if we find Mr President worthy of our votes then I think we should find him worthy of our support.
“We have moved over to join his Renewed Hope Agenda to work hands in gloves with him to ensure that the expectations of Nigerians are fulfilled. So, we have moved to the APC and we are working with the President, we have crossed that Rubicon and there is no going back for us,” George said.
GrandNews Online reports that Rivers State has been enmeshed in a political impasse as a result of a face-off between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his predecessor, Nyesom Wike.
The face-off inadvertently splitted lawmakers in the House into two camps with 27 of them defecting from the PDP to the APC where Nyesom Wike is serving as a minister of the Federal Capital Territory.
It subsquently degenerated to a level where the governor was served impeachment notice, and the governor responded by demolishing the State Assembly Complex, claiming it had suffered serious structural integrity deficit occasioned by an attack on it by alleged hoodlums. This was followed by a fury of resignations of pro-Wike commissioners in Fubara’s cabinet.
By Monday, President Bola Tinubu brokered a peace deal that has been discribed as one- sided and unacceptabl, but the pro-Wike lawmakers have, however, withdrawn the impeachment proceedings in court.
George then went on to narrate how the peace deal was brokered by Mr President.
“For every item that was considered, the President gave both parties the option of controverting or agreeing. So, each item was deliberated and was agreed on.
“At the end of the deliberations, parties were asked to come up and append their signatures to the document and Mr President said, ‘Do I have your approval to release this to the press?’ and everybody echoed yes.
“And so, everybody signed on the document and then we moved forward. The governor signed and he gave a speech that he was committed to that agreement; Mr Speaker also made a speech and committed to accepting all the agreement,” he said.
