Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has described fighting back his detractors as a waste of energy.
Fubara insisted that he would rather channel all his energy into delivering good governance, implementing people-centric policies, executing sustainable impact projects and ensuring that dividends of democracy are constantly delivered to the people.
According to Fubara, there are determined overtures by detractors who are bent on distracting his administration from set goals with unproductive fights.
He stated this at Ogbogoro Town, venue of the official flag-off of the Okania-Ogbogoro Road project in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area yesterday.
The governor said: “I have only one request; that request is to ask you to continue to conduct yourselves peacefully in the face of all the assaults. They want us to miss our goal; they want to distract us.
“If we fight with them, we will be wasting our energy. So, what we need to do is to continue to do that thing which we have promised our people.”
Fubara insisted that the Okania-Ogbogoro Road project would not end at the stage of flag off but will be completed and inaugurated in the next five months.
According to him, what is important for members of the benefitting communities and their leaders is to give the contractor the necessary support without any act of sabotage to deliver the project on schedule.
He added: “Fixing this road will improve the economy of the people living here. It will also improve the security status of this environment. So, we are thinking, not just for ourselves but also for the good and wonderful people of our state.
“So, I want to say support us so that we will continue to deliver on our promises. I want to say ‘stand with us, we will not fail you’.”
