Rivers: Joining APC simple choice – Fubara

Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State says joining the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, was an easy choice he made.

The governor said this on Thursday while addressing newsmen at the APC headquarters in Abuja.

Recall that the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, had engaged in a prolonged political battle with Fubara over the control of the PDP structure and party affairs in the oil-rich state.

In a bid to ease tensions, President Bola Tinubu suspended both the governor and the Rivers State House of Assembly for six months.

Reinstated in September, Fubara formally defected from the PDP to the ruling APC on Tuesday, December 9, 2025—a move widely seen as a major political realignment ahead of the 2027 general elections.

According to the governor, he had always been a progressive at heart and pledged to foster unity within the APC to drive development in Rivers State and Nigeria as a whole.

“When you say I am a new member of the progressive family, that is correct, but I have always been a progressive at heart. We now have a direction.

“I think my transition was one of the easiest things I have done in my life. I call it easy because saying thank you is very simple. Showing appreciation and gratitude is easy. My joining the All Progressives Congress is to say thank you to Mr President and to join hands with other progressives to develop my state and Nigeria at large,” he said.