PDP pities Fubara, says defection self-inflicted injury
The Peoples Democratic Party has described the formal defection of Sir Siminalayi Fubara, Governor of Rivers State from the party to the ruling party, All Progressives Congress, APC as a self- inflicted injury .
The party said Fubara’s move is pitiful and an exemplar of the old legal maxim Volenti non fit injuria, meaning “to one who is willing, no harm can be done”.
Reacting to the latest development in a statement, the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Comrade Ini Ememobong “said everyone who has followed the developments that culminated in the uneventful defection, will recall that the Governor willingly travelled the path that took him to this destination.
“Having done so voluntarily, he cannot turn around and accuse our party, or any other person or group of abandoning or not protecting him. Whilst a person who is at a crossroad of threats of existential proportion, will most likely suffer from temporary amnesia caused by trauma, the Governor should have nothing less than praise for our party, civil society organisations, and all Nigerians who freely stood up in his defence since this crisis started until he capitulated.
“It is our prayer that the Governor should not suffer from Stockholm Syndrome, where a victim falls in love with his captor. In all, despite these, we pity the Governor and wish him well.
“Furthermore, the Rivers situation is a testament to the dysfunctional nature of our democracy, where individuals are bigger and stronger than institutions and can use the apparatus of the Federal Government to obfuscate political life out of their opponents and bring them to their knees. Democracy is terribly threatened by acts of this kind, and all well-meaning people should unify in condemning this progressive decline of democratic norms,”the statement read
The party reiterated that Nigerians and the global community should note the unrelenting disposition of the ruling APC towards the attainment of a one-party state.
It argued that with the constriction of the political space, democracy is under severe attack in Nigeria while urging everyone to rise to oppose the ignoble trip toward electoral authoritarianism.
