The political crisis rocking the Rivers State has taken a new dimension as members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Social Democratic Party (SDP) joined Governor Siminalayi Fubara of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
This is coming hours after 27 members of the 32 lawmakers in the Rivers state House of Assembly dumped the PDP for the APC on Monday, December 11.
The defected lawmakers are believed to be loyalists of the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike who was the immediate past governor of the state.
The lawmakers who dumped the PDP for the APC on Monday cited the division in the umbrella party as the reason for their actions.
But the APC and SDP cited the alleged “undemocratic move” to impeach Governor Fubara as their reason for joining the PDP in the state.
Princewill Ogbobula, the state commissioner for youth development, said that the governor has not done anything wrong to warrant the impeachment and that the lawmakers are yet to give the reason why impeachment notice was serve on the governor.
Also speaking at the dramatic event was Haribo Wilson, former Ahoada west CTC chairman, who said he moved to the PDP with 10 APC ward chairmen, ward excos and 10 leaders of APC .
Patricial Ogbonaya, deputy governorship candidate of the SDP, said Fubara has endorsed their son as speaker of River State House of Assembly hence her support.
DAILY GIST reports that the immediate former governor of Rivers and Fubara, his successor, have been at loggerheads over the control of the political structure in the state.
The crisis between the two politicians heightened last month, culminating in an attempted impeachment of Fubara.
Despite the intervention of President Bola Tinubu in the face-off between Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State and his predecessor, Mr Nyesom Wike, there are speculations that the political crisis is far from being resolved.
The forces loyal to Wike were reportedly unrelenting in their plan to remove the governor, who, incidentally, was a close ally of his predecessor, now the Minister for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)
Abuja.
The camp of the minister had reportedly restrategised and was mobilising necessary means to carry out the impeachment of the governor.
