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A chieftain of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) in Rivers State, High Chief Clement Anaele has advised disgruntled members of the Simplified Movement in Rivers State to shift their political allegiance and join the fold of the NNPP.
Anaele who spoke to our correspondent in Port Harcourt, Rivers State said the NNPP as a mass political party has enough space to occupy them.
Anaele, who is also the National Financial Secretary of the party, expressed dismay over the manner Governor Siminalayi Fubara negotiated the peace settlement with his former boss and Minister of the Federal Capital territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, without carrying his supporters along during and after the negotiations, adding that the suspended governor failed to properly address his supporters in good manner and with respect on the outcomes of the peace settlement with the FCT Minister.
“Even though he has gone back to his boss, but the structure he has built over time cannot just die like that. It is like a man who dropped his followers in the middle of an ocean and the followers don’t know what to do again. NNPP has enough space to contain all of them if they don’t know what to do again.
“This is Rivers State and we don’t know who will be the next governor. It may be from NNPP,” Anaele stated.
The NNPP chief regretted that Rivers State has lost significantly on social, economic and political fronts in the last three months of emergency rule, pointing out that all projects including ongoing roads and other infrastructure initiated by the Fubara administration has been abandoned during the period.
“Nothing was moving in Rivers State for the last three months. Rivers State was like a ship without a leader. But let’s see if there will be changes with what has happened or it will continue the same way,” he said.
He commended Rivers people for their resilience in adapting to the situations in the state stressing however that no single individual no matter how powerful can take the place of God in the affairs of the state.
The businessman who advised residents of the state to remain patient, embrace the NNPP and wait for 2027, emphasised that the issues of one man deciding the destiny of the state will be ended in 2027.
Anaele therefore called on the Chairman of NNPP to open it’s doors to those willing to come into the party assuring that lots of people are going to join the NNPP.
“That’s why I said 2027 will not be business as usual. A lot of things will change. It is only God that knows the plan of each individual,” he said.
On the planned local government elections in the state, Anaele who decried the lack of government presence in Etche and his country home Umuode-Obibi Community, described the process in which individuals sit at a place and handpick names for the councils as a sham and against democratic principles in the State.
