The Deputy National Youth Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, Timothy Osadolor, has said the continuous absence of the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, from party’s activities may come back to hurt him.
Osadolor stated this on Saturday in a telephone conversation with our correspondent.
The governor has not been seen anywhere close to the PDP national secretariat, Abuja, since his victory at the polls.
At a retreat organised for elected members of the party in Bauchi State this year, the Rivers helmsman was visibly absent.
Similarly, the governor was again missing at a stakeholders meeting convened by the National Working Committee with the PDP 2023 presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in Abuja.
Fubara is alleged to be heeding the directive of his political mentor and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike.
Speaking with Sunday PUNCH on the issue, Osadolor said the governor must realise that he was not a puppet of anyone but a product of a party which sponsored him in an election that brought him to power.
He said, “Gov Fubara should not allow himself to be imprisoned by anyone. If he accepts the order not to travel out of Rivers State as it is being speculated, then he will be responsible for his actions at the end of the day.
“He must be his own man and realise that he was sponsored by the PDP. He cannot continue to avoid the gathering of party leaders and fellow governors. In no distant time, he would be needing the party platform to seek the people’s votes again.”
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