LG polls: Rivers CTC chairman, Fubara loyalists defect to APP

The Caretaker Committee Chairman of Khana Local Government Area in Rivers State, Marvins Yobana, and his supporters loyal to Governor Siminalayi Fubara, have formally announced their defection to the Action Peoples Party (APP).

The Guardian gathered that more CTC chairmen and other loyalists of Governor Fubara will be decamping to APP in a few days as preparations for the Council elections top other issues in the state.

The Guardian had exclusively reported that Fubara’s loyalists will contest the Council polls under the platform of APP following the unabated political crisis in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) where the Governor’s estranged godfather and the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, is having significant control of the party’s structure.

Fubara’s loyalists also could not move to Labour Party and the Social Democratic Party, (SDP) sequel to the alleged romance by Wike with the party stalwarts.

Speaking on Monday at an event in Khana Local Council, Yobana who did not get the nod to return as Chairman like others, said: “I hereby announce that I have moved to APP and I introduce to you the person that would be sworn in after the October 5, election as the executive chairman of Khana,he is Mr. Martins Ibibo.”

Meanwhile, the Chairman of APP in the State, Sunny Wokekoro, has announced that the party would emabrk on campaigns today, September 24, 2024 by the guidelines released by the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC).

Wokekoro said, “We have come up with a timetable, we will start with the Rivers South East, Rivers West, and others for our campaign.”

He said the APP is the chief wrestler in the election, affirming that it would sweep the polls and thereafter persuade the governor to run under the party come 2027.

He said, “The series of attacks on our party secretariat shows we are the Party to beat and they all know it, we are going out to campaign irrespective of any threat”.