The River State Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in the 2023 election, Beatrice Itubo, says the party has withdrawn its case against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Governor of the state, Siminalayi Fubara.
The LP governorship candidate, who disclosed this while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, said that the decision to withdraw the case was in consultation with stakeholders in her party.
Itubo said she withdrew her petition against the governor’s election at the Supreme Court to give peace a chance.
The LP candidate said she took the decision “because of the volatile nature, the tensed nature in Rivers State”.
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“You can’t say you want peace and you are still in court,” she said, adding that “Sir Fubara is a democrat and pro-workers and that is why I am doing this.”
Itubo said she joined the governorship race to take care of the welfare of workers, adding that Governor Fubara had shown signs that he would take issues concerning workers’ welfare seriously.
Meanwhile, she advised the governor to resolve his differences with his godfather, Nyesom Wike, saying that the feud between the two would deprive the citizens of the state of the dividends of democracy.
“I’m using this medium to call on the FCT minister to come back to his godson (Fubara) so that they can be able to mend their fences and move forward,” Itubo said.
Rivers State has been a theatre of drama in the last three months.
The rift between Wike and Fubara had split lawmakers in the House of Assembly with 27 of them defecting from the PDP to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), a party in whose central government Wike currently serves as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The feud also saw the emergence of parallel sittings, an impeachment plot against the governor, demolition of the Assembly complex, and a gale of resignations of pro-Wike commissioners in Fubara’s cabinet.
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