The National Coordinator, South -South Leadership Forum, Sara-Igbe on Saturday 16th of December 2023, disclosed that EMBATTLED River State Governor, His Excellency Sim FUBARA had opted to resign his position before the crisis in the State escalated to the level it currently is. He said it took the Timely Intervention of Some Eminent PDP leaders to prevail on him to shelve the idea.
Sara-Igbe a former Spokesperson of the PAN Niger- Delta Forum ( PANDEF) said the governor decided to Resign because of the way certain forces above in the party hierarchy were preventing him from asserting his independence.
He said ” What is the problem? Wike has Come To the World that he was fighting SIM because he felt there was a plot to take over his Structure. What is structure six months after Elections? We are not close to Elections, so what has structure got to do?. Let me tell you about the Structure; Before Wike left Government, The State was making over #10bn Internally Generated Revenue ( Monthly) When he left. The IGR came down drastically to about #6bn. And the governor, a former Accountant-General of the State, demanded to inquire and asked questions, Which in the process he rngaged Somebody to look into the books and the Commissioner of Finance reported To Wike and the Former Governor got angry. That’s the Structure .
